About the Author and the Illustrator

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The author at the Denver International Film Festival in 1989. Photo courtesy of Larry Laszlo & Associates, CoMedia.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Vanessa Theme Ament is a former Foley artist and sound editor who has performed Foley in films and television since 1980. She worked on many notable films including Predator, Die Hard, Noises Off, A Goofy Movie, Dolores Claiborne, Malice, RoboCop2, and Platoon, which won the Academy Award for Best Sound in 1986. In 1989 she demonstrated Foley on Late Night with David Letterman. She completed her PhD in Moving Image Studies at Georgia State University and has recently written ...

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