Novità editoriale luglio 2026 - Vitucci Francesco - Mediated Masculinities and Screen Speech in Japan Indexicality, Ideology, and the Translation of Male Language
This article examines the representation of male speech in two episodes of the Japanese television segment Shirabete Mitara, aired on Fuji TV between August and November 2025. Focusing on interviews with foreign men in Japan, it analyzes the voice-over and subtitling strategies through which their utterances are mediated, with particular attention to the role of audiovisual translation in the construction of masculine speech styles.