Hunter Vaughan

Hunter Vaughan is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at Oakland University and a 2017 Rachel Carson Center Fellow, currently teaching on issues of media and the environment as a Visiting Lecturer with University of Miami's Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy. He founded the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' 'Media and the Environment' scholarly interest group, and is currently developing a journal on environmental media, justice, and communication. His forthcoming book, Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret: the Hidden Costs of Our Screen Culture (Columbia University Press, 2018), explores the environmental impact of media production, consumption, and waste, the natural philosophical and environmental justice ramifications of media representations of the natural world, and the underlying social contract according to which we convert natural resources into cultural spectacle.