The Foley Grail, 3rd Edition

Preface to the Third Edition

With the release of the second edition of The Foley Grail in 2014, my perspective on the world of Foley had become more nuanced. I was completing a PhD in Moving Image Studies at Georgia State University and about to embark on a five-year appointment at Ball State University as the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair of Telecommunications. The fact that I was writing a dissertation, which is an industrious and highly academic exercise, while completing the second edition of this book, a practical and more accessible aspect of writing, embodied the perfect illustration of how I have lived in two worlds since 2009: that of a film practitioner with the added incarnation as a film scholar. These two worlds can ...