May 2, 2010
Captioned thematics: How captions make interpretative patterns visible
Closed captions can help viewers recognize themes and patterns in movies that might otherwise remain latent.
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).