Alterations in Dubbed Versions (Film Title Translation)

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Salzburg, language: English, abstract: In my paper I want to talk about why changes of film titles are made, which types of changes and I want to show these changes on the basis of different examples. These examples are titles of older films, but also titles of recent films. Furthermore, I will show the difficulties with film title translations, mistakes that have been made, but also successful title translations.