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/media. 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).