Showing posts with label dark tourism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dark tourism. Show all posts

Thursday, May 20, 2010

My article on "dark tourism" at Jonestown for Sightings


From time to time, I publish a column on the online journal Sightings. It gives me a chance to write about things besides Hindu myths.


In the past I’ve written about Jesus rock, Charles Manson, and the role of Indo-European themes of hospitality in The Last House on the Left.


This week, I wrote a piece about “dark tourism” at Jonestown, which fits squarely in the 60s pop culture analysis niche I’ve carved out for myself (and by “the 60s,” I mean 1965-1975).


If I had more space, I might have talked about the 1980 made-for-TV movie Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones with Powers Boothe.


You can read it here.