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This article offers a way of thinking about closed captioning that goes beyond quality narrowly defined in current style guides in terms of visual design to consider captioning as a rhetorical and interpretative practice that warrants further analysis and criticism from scholars in the humanities and social sciences. A rhetorical perspective recasts quality in terms of how genre, audience, context, and purpose shape the captioning act. Drawing on a range of Hollywood movies and television shows, this article addresses a set of topics that are central to an understanding of the effectiveness, significance, and reception of captions: overcaptioning, undercaptioning, subtitles vs. Distinguished guests, audience members, and to all of you watching at home tonight, or more realistically, Monday morning on a computer…. Video has exploded in popularity on the Web in recent years. More viewers are catching their favorite TV shows, like Saturday Night Live , on Monday mornings with laptops and mobile devices.

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