Il voice-over nella traduzione audiovisiva: caratteristiche distintive e proposta di adattamento in italiano del documentario I am fishead: are corporate leaders egostistical psychopaths?

The aim of this work is to offer a thorough definition of voice-over as an audiovisual translation mode, list and describe its distinctive features, comparing different opinions by various scholars, and implement them to adapt a real documentary film from US English into Italian, while showing the challenges found during the translation process, explaining how they were dealt with and providing a work-streamlining model for future translators. Voice-over has often been neglected in translation studies literature, but it has been recently matching the popularity it has in the audiovisual market, where it is the main mode of translation for non-fictional products, at least in the Western world. The film chosen for this dissertation is entitled I am fishead: are corporate leaders egotistical psychopath?, by Czech directors Misha Votruba and Vaclav Dejcmar. It deals mainly with psychopathy, and more specifically corporate psychopathy, as one can tell from the title, and the abuse of antidepressants and psychiatric medications in the USA.