![]() These terms are the same exact descriptors which elsewhere are used to describe characters in pain or distress. ![]() 1 One of the more noticeable gaps between captioning, image, and sound is in television sex scenes which are often written as. When examining closed captioning on television, I notice which sounds are not captioned. Well, let's talk about the captions for sex. By examining captioning, we can see the limits of defining, categorizing, and containing bodies and sex through language and disrupt ideas of normalcy which are being enacted in the space of closed captioning. Instead, we should be looking at closed captioning as a series of rhetorical choices. This paper intervenes into the scholarly work which positions closed captioning as just a federal mandate or technological advancement. ![]() This dual binary is examined in three different case studies, Scandal, Queer as Folk, and Orange is the New Black all 3 examples provide an overview of how closed captioning has performed ideological work which has largely gone unnoticed. The paper examines three different incidents of closed captioned in television sex scenes to argue that queering and cripping provide a framework to examine how the rhetorical choices in closed captioning reflect larger anxieties over bodies engaged in pleasure in a space coded as "disabled." In considering closed captioning as a space coded as "disabled" what is made caption-visible (and what is not) can enforce a dual binary of heterosexuality/abe-bodiedness against queer/disabled. This paper examines the way that language attempts to categorize and control bodies through the space of closed captioning.
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