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Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret - The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies (Hardcover)
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Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret - The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies (Hardcover)
Series: Film and Culture Series
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In an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their
environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part
escaped criticism and regulation. Its practices are more diffuse;
its final product, less tangible; and Hollywood has adopted
public-relations strategies that portray it as environmentally
conscious. In Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret, 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. Bringing together environmental humanities, science
communication, and social ethics, Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret is a
pathbreaking consideration of the film industry's environmental
impact that examines how our cultural prioritization of spectacle
has distracted us from its material consequences and
natural-resource use. Vaughan examines the environmental effects of
filmmaking from Hollywood classics to the digital era, considering
how popular screen media shapes and reflects our understanding of
the natural world. He recounts the production histories of major
blockbusters-Gone with the Wind, Singin' in the Rain, Twister, and
Avatar-situating them in the contexts of the development of the
film industry, popular environmentalism, and the proliferation of
digital technologies. Emphasizing the materiality of media, Vaughan
interweaves details of the hidden environmental consequences of
specific filmmaking practices, from water use to server farms,
within a larger critical portrait of social perceptions and
valuations of the natural world.
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