03621nam 22006135 450 991096636240332120200424112023.09780226312811022631281X10.7208/9780226312811(CKB)3710000000485446(EBL)4312093(SSID)ssj0001556009(PQKBManifestationID)16181074(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001556009(PQKBWorkID)12587417(PQKB)11224170(StDuBDS)EDZ0001379794(MiAaPQ)EBC4312093(DE-B1597)523129(OCoLC)923253668(DE-B1597)9780226312811(Perlego)1853275(EXLCZ)99371000000048544620200424h20152015 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading Sounds Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture /Sean ZdenekChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]©20151 online resource (357 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780226312781 022631278X 9780226312644 022631264X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. A Rhetorical View of Captioning -- 2. Reading and Writing Captions -- 3. Context and Subjectivity in Sound Effects Captioning -- 4. Logocentrism -- 5. Captioned Irony -- 6. Captioned Silences and Ambient Sounds -- 7. Cultural Literacy, Sonic Allusions, and Series Awareness -- 8. In a Manner of Speaking -- 9. The Future of Closed Captioning -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- IndexImagine a common movie scene: a hero confronts a villain. Captioning such a moment would at first glance seem as basic as transcribing the dialogue. But consider the choices involved: How do you convey the sarcasm in a comeback? Do you include a henchman's muttering in the background? Does the villain emit a scream, a grunt, or a howl as he goes down? And how do you note a gunshot without spoiling the scene? These are the choices closed captioners face every day. Captioners must decide whether and how to describe background noises, accents, laughter, musical cues, and even silences. When captioners describe a sound-or choose to ignore it-they are applying their own subjective interpretations to otherwise objective noises, creating meaning that does not necessarily exist in the soundtrack or the script. Reading Sounds looks at closed-captioning as a potent source of meaning in rhetorical analysis. Through nine engrossing chapters, Sean Zdenek demonstrates how the choices captioners make affect the way deaf and hard of hearing viewers experience media. He draws on hundreds of real-life examples, as well as interviews with both professional captioners and regular viewers of closed captioning. Zdenek's analysis is an engrossing look at how we make the audible visible, one that proves that better standards for closed captioning create a better entertainment experience for all viewers.Closed captioningVisual communicationClosed captioning.Visual communication.302.23Zdenek Sean, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1804748DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910966362403321Reading Sounds4352937UNINA