Hunter Vaughan is Environmental Media Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Colorado Boulder 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).

Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret injects the field of environmental media studies (and just plain media studies) with an exciting toolkit and a renewed sense of energy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Big Picture1. Burning Down the House: Fire, Explosion, and the Eco-ethics of Destruction Spectacle2. “Five Hundred Thousand Kilowatts of Stardust”: Water and Resource Use in Movies and the Marketing of Nature3. Wind of Change: New Screen Technologies, the Visualization of Invisible Environmental Threats, and the Materiality of the Virtual4. Apocalypse Tomorrow: The Myth of Earth’s End in the Digital Era5. The Fifth Element: Hollywood as Invasive Species and the Human Side of Environmental MediaConclusion: An Element of HopeNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex

Hunter Vaughan is Environmental Media Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Colorado Boulder 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).

Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret injects the field of environmental media studies (and just plain media studies) with an exciting toolkit and a renewed sense of energy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Big Picture1. Burning Down the House: Fire, Explosion, and the Eco-ethics of Destruction Spectacle2. “Five Hundred Thousand Kilowatts of Stardust”: Water and Resource Use in Movies and the Marketing of Nature3. Wind of Change: New Screen Technologies, the Visualization of Invisible Environmental Threats, and the Materiality of the Virtual4. Apocalypse Tomorrow: The Myth of Earth’s End in the Digital Era5. The Fifth Element: Hollywood as Invasive Species and the Human Side of Environmental MediaConclusion: An Element of HopeNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex

Hunter Vaughan is Environmental Media Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Colorado Boulder 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).

Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret injects the field of environmental media studies (and just plain media studies) with an exciting toolkit and a renewed sense of energy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Big Picture1. Burning Down the House: Fire, Explosion, and the Eco-ethics of Destruction Spectacle2. “Five Hundred Thousand Kilowatts of Stardust”: Water and Resource Use in Movies and the Marketing of Nature3. Wind of Change: New Screen Technologies, the Visualization of Invisible Environmental Threats, and the Materiality of the Virtual4. Apocalypse Tomorrow: The Myth of Earth’s End in the Digital Era5. The Fifth Element: Hollywood as Invasive Species and the Human Side of Environmental MediaConclusion: An Element of HopeNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex