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Hollywood''s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies
ISBN: 9780231544153
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Motion picture industry -- Environmental aspects; Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Environmental aspects;

Hunter Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective, arguing that how we make and consume films has serious ecological consequences. He examines the environmental effects of filmmaking from Hollywood classics to the digital era, considering how screen media shapes and reflects our understanding of the natural world.

Hunter Vaughan (PhD, English, Oxford) is Associate Professor of English at Oakland University. He is the author of Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Renais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking (Columbia, 2013) and Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of Our Screen Culture (Columbia, 2019) and coeditor (with Tom Conley) of The Film Theory Handbook (Anthem, forthcoming) and (with Meryl Shriver-Rice) of Screen Life and Identity: an Introduction to Media Studies (Cognella, forthcoming). His interests center on the social, political, and ecological impact of philosophy and visual culture.Hunter Vaughan is associate professor of English and cinema studies at Oakland University and a 2017 Rachel Carson Center Fellow. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Environmental Media , the author of Where Film Meets Philosophy (Columbia, 2013), and the coeditor of The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory (2018).