Definition of "fansub"

While Díaz Cintas and Muños Sánchez (2006) hint at the implications of fansub for commercial audiovisual translation norms, Pérez González (2006) places the practice in the frame of ‘interventionist’ goals emerging in the media landscape, with fans’ search for authenticity in translation.

2008, Minako O’Hagan, “Fan Translation Networks: An Accidental Translator Training Environment?”, in John Kearns, editor, Translator and Interpreter Training: Issues, Methods and Debates (Continuum Studies in Translation), Continuum International Publishing Group, page 161

The practices of fansub (user translation of a film from its original language into another and adding subtitles) and fandub (user dubbing or redubbing of a film in a way that usually changes its storyline, dialogue, and character personalities) gains more producers and a larger audience every month, and remixing is now standard musical practice.

2010, Lauryn S. Mayer, “Dark Matters and Slippery Words: Grappling with Neomedievalism(s)”, in Karl Fugelso, editor, Defining Neomedievalism(s) (Studies in Medievalism; XIX), D. S. Brewer, page 74

In the case of fansub, the danmaku interface effectively visualizes and mediates the cosmopolitan contact zone as a layer of paratextual comments on screen (Fig 8.5).

2021, Jinying Li, “Pirate cosmopolitanism and the undercurrents of flow: fansubbing television on China’s P2P networks”, in Seok-Kyeong Hong, Dal Yong Jin, editors, Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture, Routledge