Feminist Film and Television Subtitle Translation Criteria Fromthe Perspective of "Fitting in"

In recent years, there are more and more feminist films and TV series with female characters as the main characters, but there are relatively few studies on subtitle translation for this theme. This paper intends to start from the feminist translation theory, combine the new standard of “Fitting in” proposed by Professor Keyong He, summarize the three translation criteria of feminist film and television subtitles, and use the official subtitles and the subtitles of the TPGuai Subtitle Group as examples to compare and explain these three translation criteria, hoping to provide experience for the subsequent translation of feminist film and television subtitles.

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