In Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies, Hunter Vaughan argues for the necessity of new forms of production and spectatorship that are attentive to the environmental degradation caused by Hollywood filmmaking. Each chapter focuses on one of the earth's elements – Fire, Water, Wind and Earth – with a final chapter dedicated to analysis of the ‘Fifth Element’ – humanity – which ‘has imposed itself… at once within and increasingly at odds with the stability and health of our planet's ecosystems' (p. 165). Vaughan's book is persuasive, developing detailed textual analyses and new ways of conceptualising the materiality of film that assert the need to question fundamental conceptions of how celluloid and digital productions contribute to ongoing ecological disaster. But while the book's filmic analysis is astute, it is hampered by a reluctance to ground these insights within an anticolonial understanding of the infrastructures of climate crisis. By framing key arguments around European Enlightenment constructions of humanity and the world, the book struggles to analyse ecodisaster in terms of a global conjuncture.

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Hunter Vaughan (2019) 好莱坞最肮脏的秘密：电影中隐藏的环境成本

在好莱坞最肮脏的秘密中：电影中隐藏的环境成本，亨特·沃恩（Hunter Vaughan）主张新形式的制作和观看形式的必要性，这些形式关注好莱坞电影制作所造成的环境退化。每一章都关注地球的一种元素——火、水、风和土——最后一章专门分析“第五元素”——人类——它“强加了自己……同时与稳定性越来越矛盾和我们星球生态系统的健康”（第 165 页）。沃恩的书很有说服力，发展了详细的文本分析和概念化电影物质性的新方法，断言有必要质疑赛璐珞和数字制作如何导致持续的生态灾难的基本概念。虽然这本书的电影分析很精明，不愿将这些见解建立在对气候危机基础设施的反殖民主义理解中，这阻碍了它。通过围绕欧洲启蒙运动对人类和世界的建构提出关键论点，本书努力从全球形势的角度分析生态灾难。