January 13, 2012
“That whole thing’s your name?” Captioning names in The Fifth Element
On the importance of verbatim captioning, especially when names are involved.
Access, sound, captioning, film. Sean Zdenek is an associate professor of technical and professional writing at the University of Delaware. His book, Reading Sounds: Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture, won the 2017 award for best book in technical or scientific communication from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).