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In:Audio Description: New perspectives illustrated
Edited by Anna Maszerowska, Anna Matamala and Pilar Orero
[Benjamins Translation Library 112] 2014
► pp. 81–102

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chapter 5. Film language and tools

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Published online: 30 October 2014
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