El. knyga: Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society

No recent book on cinema has moved me so deeply as Life 24x a Second has moved me, from its opening reflections on lifeshocks to its profoundly resonant conclusions on what films can teach us about living wholehearted lives as friends, parents, teachers, and students. In a dazzling testament to her twenty years of award-winning teaching experience, Walker privileges her students' voices, and in so doing offers astonishing explorations of cinema's real-world value - specifically, why the medium matters in relation both to one's most personal concerns and to our society's most pressing problems. At once compassionate and incisive, Life 24x a Second is a defibrillator to the heart. * Katherine Spring, Wilfrid Laurier University * No recent book on cinema has moved me so deeply as Life 24x a Second has moved me, from its opening reflections on lifeshocks to its profoundly resonant conclusions on what films can teach us about living wholehearted lives as friends, parents, teachers, and students. In a dazzling testament to her twenty years of award-winning teaching experience, Walker privileges her students' voices, and in so doing offers astonishing explorations of cinema's real-world value specifically, why the medium matters in relation both to one's most personal concerns and to our society's most pressing problems. At once compassionate and incisive, Life 24x a Second is a defibrillator to the heart. * Katherine Spring, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University * Walker finds life, connection, and compassion in cinema-qualities also found in this wonderful book. * D. Herbert, CHOICE * the book provides an unusually intimate engagement with its author, but this courageous intimacy is part of the project. Walker finds life, connection, and compassion in cinema--qualities also found in this wonderful book. * Choice *