Jonestown on Television
This media review adds to existing scholarship about Peoples Temple by examining Jonestown's presence in television historyfrom 1980 when actor Powers Boothe won an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Jim Jones in the CBS-TV movie Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones to current programs in produ...
| Published in: | Nova religio |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Californiarnia Press
[2018]
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| In: |
Nova religio
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Peoples Temple
/ Collective suicide
/ Depiction
/ Television
/ Coming to terms with the past
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| IxTheo Classification: | AZ New religious movements |
| Further subjects: | B
Peoples Temple
B cultural memory B Television B Jonestown B Narrative B documentary B re-enactment |
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| Summary: | This media review adds to existing scholarship about Peoples Temple by examining Jonestown's presence in television historyfrom 1980 when actor Powers Boothe won an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Jim Jones in the CBS-TV movie Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones to current programs in production by HBO and A&E. In addition to these docudramas, Jonestown on Television also addresses explicit and implicit references to Jonestown that have occurred on episodic television. Analyzing these television sources highlights how the events at Jonestown are being told, visualized, and remembered, and, as such, shaping Americans' cultural memory of the past. |
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| ISSN: | 1541-8480 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nova religio
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/nr.2018.22.2.137 |