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Reodica, M. (2017). The Conqueror’s Ventriloquist: A Qualitative Study of the
Audiovisual Translation in the 2012 Restoration of Manuel Conde’s Genghis Khan
(1952). (Undergraduate thesis, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Philippines.)

Manuel Conde's Genghis Khan is a culturally and historically significant
masterpiece as the first Filipino film to receive international distribution and acclaim
across the world, being dubbed into 17 languages and grossing $17 million dollars.
(Tiongson, 2008, p. 72) However, due to the poor history of archiving and preservation in
the Philippines, it had long been considered lost. In 2012, it was restored by L'Immagine
Ritrovata and repatriated to the Philippines with an English audiovisual translation. (San
Diego, 2012)
This research used Evan-Zohar’s Polysystem Theory and Chaume’s Integrated
Textual Analysis of the audiovisual semiotic codes to evaluate the audiovisual translation
of the film. The addition of the narrator as a filmic and technological device resulted in
shifts in cultural bearings of the film. The study also describes the resulting sense of
aesthetic distancing, othering, and domestication from the point of view of the researcher
as a bilingual viewer. Overall, the voice-over manifests discrepancies reflect the
linguistic inequality between Philippine cinema and Hollywood.

Key words: film studies, Audiovisual Translation, Genghis Khan, linguistic inequality, Manuel Conde, Integrated Textual Analysis, Polysystem Theory, Philippine Cinema, postcolonial theory

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