Chaperos, Rent Boys, and Sex Workers: Translating Attitudes Towards Male Sex Work in the Spanish Dubbing of the US TV Series Looking.

This article explores the Castilian Spanish dubbed version of the 2014 US gay-themed series Looking and its treatment of attitudes towards the male sex worker as a figure connected to the discursive construction of homosexuality. Based on the vision that translation represents an activity capable of...

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Publicado en:Sexuality & Culture Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 823 - 843
Autor principal: Iglesias Urquízar, José
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2023
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