https://www.huntervaughan.net/portfolio daily 0.75 2019-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1571809740692-H7KO84GBLWIIOMK3D6CS/HDS.jpg portfolio - Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret 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. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/hollywoods-dirtiest-secret/9780231182416 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1571809740692-H7KO84GBLWIIOMK3D6CS/HDS.jpg portfolio - Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret 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. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/hollywoods-dirtiest-secret/9780231182416 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1571810610469-AKN5EPNSUF631PE8YZJB/IMG_2145.jpg portfolio - Green Media Production Field Work Popular films and television shows have grown more environmental on the surface, but we rarely think of the environmental ramifications of how they are made, distributed, maintained, watched, and archived - the natural resources they require, the energy they are dependent on, the manufacturing processes they are a part of, the global e-waste they produce - and the environmental justice implications of every stage. Much of my work involves the materiality and resource dependency of media culture. Among other projects, I am PI with Pietari Kaapa (University of Warwick) on a two-year international AHRC grant to develop a Global Green Media Production Network. We work with leading experts across the world to develop approaches to environmentally sustainable media practices - including economic incentives offered by local governments, initiatives designed by private companies, and strategies for embedding environmental values in education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1571811156029-J4P242YANFOGNYYAKD2P/journal-of-environmental-mediafront-coverrgb-81583-290x400.jpg portfolio - Journal of Environmental Media Hunter co-founded and is Editor, with Meryl Shriver-Rice, of the interdisciplinary Journal of Environmental Media (Intellect Books). “The Journal of Environmental Media offers a scholarly platform to bridge work in environmental studies, issues of social justice and science communication through the prism of screen media. In particular, the journal will promote studies in the technology, messaging and reception of environmentally themed content, policy and activism through the mediation of digital mobile screens. As both the general population and academic world experiences a growing awareness of how integral visual and digital culture are to our understanding, discussion, and behaviour around the natural environment in an era of accelerating climate change, this journal responds to an urgent cultural, scientific and scholarly intersection.” https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-environmental-media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cddecb2b8ddeef8fbf9088/1457034507462-JR4KZT5NAGZ87QILTAC6/28.jpg portfolio - Cliffs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1571809942031-2E4LBGTWP0AMHNOMB3I3/books+and+books.JPG portfolio - Invited Talks Recent recaps and upcoming talks: Boulder Bookstore, Boulder CO (January 30, 2020) Boston Film & Media Speaker Series, Wellesley College (Sept. 26, 2019): https://www.wellesley.edu/newhouse/events/node/167691 Books & Books, Coral Gables FL (April 17, 2019): https://booksandbooks.com/event/hunter-vaughan/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1571810861975-GBLYN0NY0RDL0S2UHAB0/WFMP.jpg portfolio - Where Film Meets Philosophy “Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles Deleuze's image-philosophy, Vaughan applies a rich theoretical framework to a comparative analysis of Jean-Luc Godard's films, which critique the audio-visual illusion of empirical observation (objectivity), and the cinema of Alain Resnais, in which the sound-image generates innovative portrayals of individual experience (subjectivity). Both filmmakers radically upend conventional film practices and challenge philosophical traditions to alter our understanding of the self, the world, and the relationship between the two. Films discussed in detail include Godard's Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), and 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967); and Resnais's Hiroshima, mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and The War Is Over (1966). Situating the formative works of these filmmakers within a broader philosophical context, Vaughan pioneers a phenomenological film semiotics linking two disparate methodologies to the mirrored achievements of two seemingly irreconcilable artists.” https://cup.columbia.edu/book/where-film-meets-philosophy/9780231161329 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cddecb2b8ddeef8fbf9088/1457024162806-XH03IVFMI26S05KB074J/31.jpg portfolio - Caravan In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Fusce eu erat tincidunt, dapibus sem scelerisque, dapibus nibh. 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Welcome to my website. I am a cultural historian focusing on screen (ie film tv digital anything on screens) culture and issues of social identity and justice in relation to the human manufacturing of perceptions and treatments of the “natural” - ie environmental media studies. My work aims to build interdisciplinary bridges between arts, humanities, communication, and social science approaches to how we might lead more conscientious lives in relation to both our daily media use and our relationship with nonhuman nature. My greatest professional hope is that this scholarship might be applicable and assist in more efficacious science communication and more ethical media practice, that we might live in correlation with our thoughts, that a deep change in cultural values might be happening that we are a part of and, rolling the boulder of social equality and environmental protection up the hill of neoliberal globalization, our Sisyphus might reveal the absurd as the quintessence of reason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1572234663178-G1576IONKQ170SS0IT19/books+and+books.JPG Jodie Romero Books and Books, Coral Gables FL, 2019 https://www.huntervaughan.net/experience daily 0.75 2019-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1572286392767-IFMDQOYFIG45LGRHTZPG/20191018-1L0A0679.jpg Experience The GPN’s first workshop, London 2019, bringing together leading scholarly figures in environmental media studies, ecocrticism, and communication with industry experts in green production from across Europe and the UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1572042155964-77AB0XXS2YBQPYARQ5T0/HDS.jpg Experience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1572242888023-1WHZL4958U7EQY9AP4V3/baa2d9c6-7a2a-4558-893a-6169aedfe4e5.JPG Experience Presenting the interdisciplinary methods and goals of the GPN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1572214602102-QG3K462SIV40YZLT7FL0/WFMP.jpg Experience “In Where Film Meets Philosophy, Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles Deleuze's image-philosophy, Vaughan applies a rich theoretical framework to a comparative analysis of Jean-Luc Godard's films, which critique the audio-visual illusion of empirical observation (objectivity), and the cinema of Alain Resnais, in which the sound-image generates innovative portrayals of individual experience (subjectivity). Both filmmakers radically upend conventional film practices and challenge philosophical traditions to alter our understanding of the self, the world, and the relationship between the two. Situating the formative works of these filmmakers within a broader philosophical context, Vaughan pioneers a phenomenological film semiotics linking two disparate methodologies to the mirrored achievements of two seemingly irreconcilable artists.” (Columbia University Press, 2013) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1572234711037-E0S74PYHCWC2LLER4A7M/Wellesley+talk.JPG Experience Boston Film and Media Speaker Series, Newhouse Center, Wellesley College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1572234178077-FQKD2TZPVQSCED7CVGL0/7b07f5f158203520c340397f6a32890029dda295.jpg Experience “‘The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory’ offers a unique and progressive survey of screen theory and how it can be applied to a range of moving-image texts and sociocultural contexts. Focusing on the ‘handbook’ angle, the book includes only original essays from two primary sources: established authors in the field and new scholars on the cutting edge of helping screen theory evolve for the twenty-first-century vistas of new media, social shifts and geopolitical change. It is at once inclusive, applicable and a chance for writers to innovate and really play with where they think the field is, can, and should be heading.” (Edited with Tom Conley, Anthem Press, 2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1572214219918-4NRC6D1RSH9VQ0U4KQDH/journal-of-environmental-mediafront-coverrgb-81583-290x400.jpg Experience I co-founded and am co-Editor-in-Chief (with Meryl Shriver-Rice) of the Journal of Environmental Media (Intellect Books) - click the link to check it out! https://www.huntervaughan.net/education daily 0.75 2019-10-29 https://www.huntervaughan.net/about-intro daily 0.75 2019-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56e049e08a65e26059119cd5/1460489042652-1Y6DERCYU4NPNC9UJSTP/EmptyName-48.jpg About Intro https://www.huntervaughan.net/home daily 1.0 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1579194587050-5KDBHLRGF8UF6VNHQU2B/HVaughan+profile+photo.jpg Home - Contact me any time for more info or to start a conversation: hunter.vaughan@emerson.edu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/1572891991918-LL3WZJOZRPN51A4F5247/HDS.jpg Home https://www.huntervaughan.net/curriculumvitae daily 0.75 2024-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/27508b74-2901-4bdc-aaa9-78fdc4b7e025/Screenshot+2024-08-29+at+16.36.25.png CV - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/ab402a5b-4d0a-4e18-8aba-67fc930b0203/Screenshot+2024-08-29+at+16.36.33.png CV - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/a08f9868-5138-4521-a570-ef2e29abd65f/Screenshot+2024-08-29+at+16.36.15.png CV - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daddb319e9c361a9c9653a5/2f1c7044-cf5e-4a08-9bd4-5c9d7e44b9e4/Screenshot+2024-08-29+at+16.36.41.png CV - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.huntervaughan.net/terms-conditions-ready daily 0.75 2025-05-08