{"product_id":"reading-sounds-sean-zdenek-9780226312781","title":"Reading Sounds: Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture","description":"Imagine 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 \u003ci\u003escream\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003egrunt\u003c\/i\u003e, or a \u003ci\u003ehowl\u003c\/i\u003e as he goes down? And how do you note a gunshot without spoiling the scene? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Sounds\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sean Zdenek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022631278X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226312781\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/23\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.01h x 4.77w x 0.83d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2016","brand":"Sean Zdenek","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44966440829183,"sku":"9780226312781","price":43.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2aa37e27-8609-43b7-ac88-5976da890507.jpg?v=1711159862","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-sounds-sean-zdenek-9780226312781","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}