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Reading Sounds: Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture
Sean Zdenek, 2015
CALL NO...: 07-BOO
TYPE......: Book
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The first extended humanistic study of closed captioning, arguing that captioners do not just transcribe but invent: they decide which sounds matter and find words for them, shaping how Deaf and hard of hearing viewers experience a film. Changes how you read a caption track. Winner of the 2017 CCCC/NCTE Best Book award; the companion site holds 500-plus video clips.
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Available at academic libraries and from University of Chicago Press. The companion website readingsounds.net hosts the clip archive free.