Review of: Elsie Walker: Life 24x a Second. Cinema, Selfhood, and Society. New York: Oxford University Press 2024

Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society is Elsie Walker’s third and most »unorthodox« book, each published by Oxford University Press (2015, 2017, 2024). Throughout the introduction and six chapters, Walker celebrates the humanitarian value of cinema, foregrounding this through gripping student and personal testimony rather than by »any intricately sustained effort to situate [her] work in relation to well-establishedtheoretical works or other scholars« (21). Life 24x a Second will appeal to pedagogues and researchers of film and film music, though students and sociocultural scholars will also find plenty of intrigue.