Vaughan Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret

The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54415-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vaughan, Hunter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Big Picture
1. Burning Down the House: Fire, Explosion, and the Eco-ethics of Destruction Spectacle
2. “Five Hundred Thousand Kilowatts of Stardust”: Water and Resource Use in Movies and the Marketing of Nature
3. Wind of Change: New Screen Technologies, the Visualization of Invisible Environmental Threats, and the Materiality of the Virtual
4. Apocalypse Tomorrow: The Myth of Earth’s End in the Digital Era
5. The Fifth Element: Hollywood as Invasive Species and the Human Side of Environmental Media
Conclusion: An Element of Hope
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Vaughan Hunter:
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).