Afterword and Further Reading
On Theory
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they’re not.”
—(attributed to) Yogi Berra
Post Sound People are not Theorists
The social and industrial milieu for MSNL readers and contributors was effectively isolated from academics interested in film sound. Admittedly, none around the publication’s little group had encountered much theoretical scholarship about film sound. Beyond the arcane passions of MSNL’s auto-didactic sound historians Rick Mitchell and George Simpson, both of whom were excellent writers with professionally critical ears, there was not a formal presence of Theory itself.
The presumption was that the field in which we made a living was of no interest to serious ...
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