TY - JOUR
AU - MacDonald, Scott
AB - SCOT T MACDONALD Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. —Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, no. 3. If we have generally understood that a work of literature or a paint- ing, music, even film, is Art to the extent that it defies time and decay, providing essentially the same experience to readers (viewers, listeners) across generations and despite the flux of life, many of us who have come to love the cinema have come to see the Art it provides as espe- cially poignant, not simply because the artistry of the greatest films can endure from generation to generation, but also because of the intrinsic physical fragility of the medium . While many generations of literary artists, visual artists, composers have seen their job as expressing the continuity of spirit/soul, some filmmakers see the Art of cinema as increasingly informed by predictions of its seemingly inevitable, even imminent, demise (or at best, its transformation into another, digital form). Those of u s who watch and tr y 
TI - Toward an Eco-Cinema
JF - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
DO - 10.1093/isle/11.2.107
DA - 2004-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/toward-an-eco-cinema-TZffwZOGid
SP - 107
EP - 132
VL - 11
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -