It’s been far too long since my last recommendations post, sorry!
Right Stuf is having another sale, this time for Memorial Day. Please keep in mind, only DVDs are on sale this time. So, if you want to purchase on Blu-ray, you may just want to add these to your wish list and wait for a Blu-ray sale.
And without further ado, here are some more recommendations from various genres:
*Note: The views expressed in this essay are the author’s alone, and should not be taken to represent the views of any current or former employers.
When I read Uma Thurman’s stories of abuse and betrayal at the hands of the men who were supposed to be her collaborators, I couldn’t help but write about it. Something about the context of experiencing these terrible things while she was working on Kill Bill, one of the most violent cinematic environments possible (even if she and her stunt double were often the ones instigating the violence), struck a familiar chord with me.
I work in the entertainment industry, translating films and TV shows. I translate mostly TV, but I love film. Film is my greater love, and it’s where I wish I spent more of my time. But I’ll tell you something: Despite my profession, in my private life, that love died for a long time. I stopped watching films for years.
It wasn’t “despite” my profession. It was because of my profession.
I’ve never been sexually assaulted or put in extreme physical danger in the name of film, like Thurman and so very many of her colleagues. I don’t claim the #MeToo hashtag for myself, because it belongs to those who have experienced things I haven’t. But the juxtaposition of “my day job” with “horrific sexual violence” is familiar to me. I think it’s probably familiar to far more people than those outside the industry might imagine.
That’s why today, I want to talk about the entertainment industry. Not because it’s the only industry that is home to male sexual predators—it isn’t. Not because the suffering of entertainers matters more than other people’s suffering—it doesn’t. Not even because this is the worst of work environments for a language professional—that’s not true, either. (I can’t imagine what it’s like to be a court interpreter, hearing and relating the stories of crime victims.) But because it’s a work environment that’s not easy for many people to understand, and that’s something I can help with.
So, here are some thoughts on being a woman in the entertainment world.
As promised, here are the slides from my American Translators Association Annual Conference presentation. Thank you to all who attended! You were a great audience. ATA 57 Presentation Slides (PDF) © 2016 Sarah Lindholm © 2023 The Detail Woman LLC
Thank you to all the attendees who came to my “Leveling Up” presentation at IJET-27! You were a great audience, and I loved hearing your comments afterward. As promised, here is the PDF of my PowerPoint slides. If you attended and you have suggestions for how I could improve the session, please feel free to … Read more
As many of you know, last month, I gave a presentation at the 55th annual American Translators Association conference called “Pictures and Sound: Translating Television and Other Audiovisual Media.” After the presentation, a few attendees asked me for copies of the slides. At the time I replied that I had no plans to release them, … Read more
Tomorrow November 8th, I’ll be presenting my first-ever American Translators Association conference session. If you’ve ever wondered what translating audiovisual content is all about, come join me for session T-10: “Pictures and Sound: Translating Television and Other Audiovisual Media” from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. So that attendees don’t have to give themselves hand cramps … Read more
Yoinking a great idea from the Fandom Post: Why not recommend some DVDs/Blu-rays that are on sale right now, so you can discover new things on the cheap?
Right Stuf, one of my favorite online retailers due to their friendly customer service, is having a 40% off sale until May 19th on DVDs and Blu-rays from FUNimation. (Full disclosure: that’s the company I work for. But there are great titles from other companies, too, so I’ll post those recs as I find out about sales. Also, please note: the content of this post represents my personal opinions, and in no way represents any statements or opinions of FUNimation’s.)
So, here are some 40%-off recommendations from various genres:
Well, I’m a little late posting it this time, but yep, I’m doing another simulcast this season: Ping Pong the Animation. It’s based on the 1990s manga Ping Pong, which was popular enough to get a live-action film you may have seen (I’ve read the manga in Japanese, but I’m waiting to watch the movie’s English-language … Read more
Time for a couple more frequently asked questions! Two that I get often are about scripts for the anime shows/films that I translate. When you do an anime do they send you a script or do they send you the episode? The short answer to this one is “yes.” Or rather, yes, the licensor sends … Read more
A new year, a new anime season, a new simulcast. Just started my new show, Nobunagun. If you’re thinking, “That sounds like it’s probably about Oda Nobunaga’s soul being turned into a semiautomatic machine gun”… yep, that’s pretty much right! But wait, there’s more: it’s also about Oda Nobunaga teaming up with Gandhi and Jack … Read more