Translating and retranslating Italian cinema across time: Fellini in the UK and in the US

W hen studying film translation  from an historical perspective ,  i t is essential to establish  which films  were  watched by which audience  with what kind of consequences  ( Bosma 2015: 40 ) ; to  the debate, one should  add ‘where’  and ‘when’, as the context obviously must be taken into account . In addition to that, t he context  – both in terms of space and time –  in which  the translations of these films  have been  produced,  consumed , and received also  plays a key role ,  not only in determining viewer’s habits and expectations, but also  in trying to study from a different a nd  possibly new perspective the traditional subtitling vs. dubbing debate