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By naming 'Pennhurst', Stranger Things uses disability trauma for entertainment. Dark tourism and asylum tours do too

  • Written by Joanne Watson, Senior Lecturer in Disability and Inclusion, Deakin University
By naming 'Pennhurst', Stranger Things uses disability trauma for entertainment. Dark tourism and asylum tours do tooNetflix

The Netflix sci-fi horror series Stranger Things is vividly soaked in 1980s nostalgia, famously catapulting Kate Bush’s 1985 song Running up that Hill to the top of the music charts in 2022.

In season four, series creators the Duffer Brothers introduce viewers to Pennhurst Mental Hospital for the criminally insane (which was also...

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