Hollywood's dirtiest secret the hidden environmental costs of the movies
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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Columbia University Press
2019
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| Schriftenreihe: | Film and culture
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. Burning down the house: fire, the eco-ethics of destruction, and authorship in the film spectacle -- 500,000 kilowatts of stardust: resource use and the formula for packaging nature in Singin' in the rain -- Winds of change: twister and the visualization of environmental disaster in the digital age -- Apocalypse tomorrow: Avatar and the myth of Earth's end in the digital era -- The fifth element: production culture studies, relational values, and the human side of environmental media -- Conclusion. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 243 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780231182416 978-0-231-18241-6 9780231182409 978-0-231-18240-9 |