Abstract
For a discipline whose institutionalization and growth in the 1960s and 1970s depended a great deal on the translations of classical fi lm theory, as well as its contemporary French scholarship (Raymond Bellour's work among them), this apparent lack of interest in work on fi lm and media in other languages is alarming. [...]despite the consistent and growing turn within fi lm and media studies toward transnational scholarship, and despite the fact that much of the cutting- edge, award-winning work in the discipline deals with the areas of the world that have traditionally not constituted part of the fi lm and media studies canon, we see very few translations published that address the lack of available sources from areas beyond the disciplinary center. [...]of the continuing crisis in academic publishing and the replacement of literary translation practices with algo- rithm-based business translations, academic translation in general has become much more of a rarity, and few publishers are willing to accept translated material.