Censorship in political correctness: Audiovisual translation enters the scene

Abstract

A funamental aspect for a translator is related to those factors that determine their translation proposal. It is precisely in such proposals where we can appreciate both the ideology and the receiver of the translated product. In the case of AVT, the receiver cannot be only identified with the audience of the film, but they also encompass the moral system of a specific historical moment. We agree with Julia Kristeva that the relationship between two texts is always presented negatively; and it is precisely in the negation of such identification and in its transformation that we find the ideological gesture par excellence. The present study aims to identify such transformation in the AVT space and unveil censorship and manipulation of the realities depicted in the original text which cause, in turn, a false image of reality.