Television and Cultural Translation in Romania

• In Event: Discourses of Stability, Change, Exchange: Cultural Translation and Global Television Studies

Abstract

Drawing from research data obtained through a textual analysis of news and entertainment programs, this study examines television as a site for cultural translation within the European Union under expansion in the past decade. Particularly, this presentation will focus on cultural translation issues in television programming in Romania, country accepted in E.U. in 2007, whose media are currently incorporating a mixture of linguistic and cultural influences from around Western Europe, the Balkans, as well as the United States. The presenters will reflect on mediatized and televised linguistic and cultural exchanges between the “old” Europe, the traditional Western democracies, and the “new” Europe, the countries emerging out of communist totalitarian sociopolitical-systems.

Authors

• Diana Cismaru, NULL

• Diana Nastasia, University of North Dakota

• Sorin Nastasia, University of North Dakota