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Translating (and rewriting) Jane Austen’s food across time and space (2022)
Journal Article
Li, S., Li, Q., & Hope, W. (2022). Translating (and rewriting) Jane Austen’s food across time and space. Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, 9(2), 201-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2022.2106068

This study incorporates House's TQA framework into corpus-based translation studies to evaluate how Jane Austen's depictions of food have been translated and perceived within Chinese contexts. This study’s dataset includes a Jane Austen corpus in Eng... Read More about Translating (and rewriting) Jane Austen’s food across time and space.

Terminology translation in Chinese contexts - theory and practice (2021)
Book
Li, S., & Hope, W. (2021). S. Li, & W. Hope (Eds.), Terminology translation in Chinese contexts - theory and practice. Abingdon, New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003006688

Terminology Translation in Chinese Contexts: Theory and Practice investigates the theory and practice of terminology translation, terminology management, and scholarship within the distinctive milieu of Chinese and explores the complex relationship b... Read More about Terminology translation in Chinese contexts - theory and practice.

Introduction : the role of terminology translation in China's contemporary identities and cultures (2021)
Book Chapter
Li, S., & Hope, W. (2021). Introduction : the role of terminology translation in China's contemporary identities and cultures. In S. Li, & W. Hope (Eds.), Terminology translation in Chinese contexts - theory and practice (1-17). Abingdon, New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003006688-1

This introduction identifies the challenges that face translators and terminologists working between Chinese and English in the age of globalization, and it discusses factors that have facilitated effective terminology development. It also outlines t... Read More about Introduction : the role of terminology translation in China's contemporary identities and cultures.

The Roma in Italian documentary films (2020)
Book Chapter
Hope, W. (2020). The Roma in Italian documentary films. In R. Mladenova, T. von Borcke, P. Brunssen, M. End, & A. Reuss (Eds.), Antigypsyism and Film / Antiziganismus und Film (209-222). Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.650

An overview of Italian new millennium documentary films that feature the Roma and analyse their rapport with Italian society.

The Roma in new millennium Italian fiction films : dissensus, liminality, emancipation. (2016)
Journal Article
Hope, W. (2016). The Roma in new millennium Italian fiction films : dissensus, liminality, emancipation. Italianist, 36(2), 266-286. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2016.1178889

The Roma endow films with a strong political resonance through their exposure to micro- and macro-level discrimination and reactionary populism in contemporary Italy. A socio-political evolution can be traced in the way new millennium Italian fiction... Read More about The Roma in new millennium Italian fiction films : dissensus, liminality, emancipation..

The Roma on screen : voicing the counter-hegemonic (2016)
Journal Article
Hope, W. (2016). The Roma on screen : voicing the counter-hegemonic. Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 4(1), 63-81. https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms.4.1.63_1

Since the new millennium, approximately thirty Italian documentaries have focused on the Roma, Sinti and other more tendentially nomadic groups. Drawing on writings by theorists including Spivak and Parati, this article contends that many documentari... Read More about The Roma on screen : voicing the counter-hegemonic.

"Self-Portrait in stone. A house between the Greco and the Scirocco" (2015)
Book Chapter
Hope, W. (2015). "Self-Portrait in stone. A house between the Greco and the Scirocco". In Cy Twombly at Casa Malaparte, Capri (6-7). Uckfield: Gagosian Gallery

A translation into English of a piece of prose by the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte. The translation forms part of a publication commissioned by the Gagosian Gallery, New York, to commemorate an exhibition of the work of the artist Cy Twombley held... Read More about "Self-Portrait in stone. A house between the Greco and the Scirocco".

Review - Marx at the Movies: Revisiting history, theory and practice, edited by Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen (2015)
Journal Article
Hope, W. (2015). Review - Marx at the Movies: Revisiting history, theory and practice, edited by Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen. View finder (London), 29-29

Book review of an edited volume that applies Marxist theory and criticism - in the context of philosophy, politics and literature - to shed light on the production and reception of films from the past century.

Un nuovo cinema politico Italiano? volume 2 (2014)
Book
(2014). W. Hope, S. Serra, & L. D'arcangeli (Eds.), Un nuovo cinema politico Italiano? volume 2. Leicester, UK: Troubador Publishing

This volume examines representations of social, historical and political issues in contemporary Italian cinema, focusing on the following themes: Italy’s socio-political past as depicted on screen; filmic representations of the Italian State, institu... Read More about Un nuovo cinema politico Italiano? volume 2.

Now playing : Politics (2014)
Journal Article
Hope, W. (2014). Now playing : Politics

An overview of the creation of political cinema in Italy over the past twenty years by directors such as Daniele Vicari and Sabina Guzzanti.

Un nuovo cinema politico italiano? volume 1 (2013)
Book
Hope, W., d'Arcangeli, L., & Serra, S. (2013). W. Hope, L. d'Arcangeli, & S. Serra (Eds.), Un nuovo cinema politico italiano? volume 1. Leicester, UK: Troubador Publishing

Edited volume examining representations of labour relations, immigration, and gender relations in 21st century Italian cinema. The volume contains nineteen essays and an interview with the Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore.

The cinema of Gabriele Salvatores: the discreet alienation of the bourgeoisie (2009)
Journal Article
Hope, W. (2009). The cinema of Gabriele Salvatores: the discreet alienation of the bourgeoisie. Studies in European Cinema, 5(3), 185-195. https://doi.org/10.1386/seci.5.3.185_1

This article examines how, in the films Puerto Escondido (1992) and Nirvana(1997), Salvatores reworks the paranoid conspiracy thriller and science fiction genre to explore radical and unexpected shifts in the social position of the middle classes as... Read More about The cinema of Gabriele Salvatores: the discreet alienation of the bourgeoisie.