Eskimo Avenue: Pejorative Arctic ethnonyms as the final frontier of racism?

Kenn Nakata Steffensen   At the recent Media for All Conference in London I came across a stall marketing a new division of the subtitling company Broadcast Text International. The rather unfortunate name they have chosen is Eskimo Avenue. It could not have been named Paki Street or Nigger Lane, but it seems that Eskimo [...]

Subtitling on BBC World Service Newshour 20th May 2010

There was a short item on subtitling on the World Service’s Newshour programme on 20th May 2010. Michael Brook of the BFI was interviewed. Frankly, he does not seem to know much about the subtitling industry or the craft of subtitling. I will have a few words to say about it later, but I am [...]