Elsie Walker

Life 24x a Second

Cinema, Selfhood, and Society

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Life 24x a Second highlights the life-sustaining and life-affirming power of cinema. Author Elsie Walker pays particular attention to pedagogical practice and students' reflections on what the study of cinema has given to their lives. This book provides multiple perspectives on why cinema matters to individuals and in the world at large, focusing on films that represent psychological breakthroughs, progressive possibilities for social change, and cross-cultural human connections.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9780197600924
• ISBN-10: 0197600921
• Artikelnr.: 69516000

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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
* Index
* Bibliography