Elsie Walker is Professor of Cinema Studies at Salisbury University. She is the author of Hearing Haneke: The Soundtracks of a Radical Auteur and Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory, and editor of Literature/Film Quarterly, the longest-standing international journal about adaptation studies.

• 1. Introduction: Cinema is Life 2. Black Lives Matter, <"Talking Back,> " and the Life of BlacKkKlansman 3. Levels of Listening to Nobody Knows: Uniting Personal Experience, Pedagogical Practice, and Social Purpose 4. HeartMath: Listening to the <"organ of fire> " and Dancer in the Dark 5. Hearing Life in the Midst of Death: Psychological Healing within Life of Pi, Ikiru, and A Star Is Born 6. Turning the Microphone Around: Hearing from Alumni 7. Life After Life: rehearing Call Me By Your Name and Portrait of a Lady on Fire IndexBibliography

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.

Elsie Walker is Professor of Cinema Studies at Salisbury University. She is the author of Hearing Haneke: The Soundtracks of a Radical Auteur and Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory, and editor of Literature/Film Quarterly, the longest-standing international journal about adaptation studies.

• 1. Introduction: Cinema is Life 2. Black Lives Matter, <"Talking Back,> " and the Life of BlacKkKlansman 3. Levels of Listening to Nobody Knows: Uniting Personal Experience, Pedagogical Practice, and Social Purpose 4. HeartMath: Listening to the <"organ of fire> " and Dancer in the Dark 5. Hearing Life in the Midst of Death: Psychological Healing within Life of Pi, Ikiru, and A Star Is Born 6. Turning the Microphone Around: Hearing from Alumni 7. Life After Life: rehearing Call Me By Your Name and Portrait of a Lady on Fire IndexBibliography

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.

Elsie Walker is Professor of Cinema Studies at Salisbury University. She is the author of Hearing Haneke: The Soundtracks of a Radical Auteur and Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory, and editor of Literature/Film Quarterly, the longest-standing international journal about adaptation studies.

• 1. Introduction: Cinema is Life 2. Black Lives Matter, <"Talking Back,> " and the Life of BlacKkKlansman 3. Levels of Listening to Nobody Knows: Uniting Personal Experience, Pedagogical Practice, and Social Purpose 4. HeartMath: Listening to the <"organ of fire> " and Dancer in the Dark 5. Hearing Life in the Midst of Death: Psychological Healing within Life of Pi, Ikiru, and A Star Is Born 6. Turning the Microphone Around: Hearing from Alumni 7. Life After Life: rehearing Call Me By Your Name and Portrait of a Lady on Fire IndexBibliography

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.