Investigating Stranger things : upside down in the world of mainstream cult entertainment / Tracey Mollet, Lindsey Scott, editors.
Mollet, Tracey Louise, editor.; Scott, Lindsey, editor.
2021
PN1992.77.S73 I58 2021
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Title Investigating Stranger things : upside down in the world of mainstream cult entertainment / Tracey Mollet, Lindsey Scott, editors.
ISBN 9783030663148 (electronic bk.)
3030663140 (electronic bk.)
9783030663131
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66314-8
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 249 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-66314-8 doi
Call Number PN1992.77.S73 I58 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.45/6164
Summary This book explores the narrative, genre, nostalgia and fandoms of the phenomenally successful Netflix original series Stranger Things. It considers the different ways in which the show both challenges and confirms our pre-conceived notions of cult media texts by examining the series' textual features, contextual criticism and forms of audience engagement. The chapters examine all aspects of the show's presence in popular culture, engaging with debates surrounding cult horror, teen drama and contemporary anxieties in the age of Trump. The book also touches upon relatively neglected areas of scholarship in the realm of cult media, such as set design, fashion and the textual complexities of the Secret Cinema experience. Discussions within the book also serve to demonstrate how cult texts are facilitated by the new age of television, where notions of medium specificity are fundamentally transformed and streaming platforms open shows to the extensive analysis expected from (now mainstream) cult fandoms. Tracey Mollet is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of Cartoons in Hard Times: The Animated Shorts of Disney and Warner Brothers in Depression and War (2017) and A Cultural History of the Disney Fairy Tale: Once Upon an American Dream (2020). She has published widely on American popular culture, including several articles and chapters on Stranger Things, intertextuality and nostalgia. Lindsey Scott is Lecturer in English at the University of Suffolk, UK, where she teaches adaptation studies and gothic horror in young adult fiction. Her work has appeared in edited collections and journals including Literature/Film Quarterly and Shakespeare Survey. She is currently writing on horror in children's literature and popular culture.
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Scott, Lindsey, editor.
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1. Stranger Things in a Familiar Land: Mainstream Cult Entertainment in the Age of Netflix
2.'There's More to Life Than Stupid Boys': the (Re) Gendering of Cult Teen Relationships in Stranger Things 3
3.Coming of Age in the Upside Down: Renegotiating the Boundaries of Mainstream/Cult Horror in Stranger Things
4. Flirting with the Final Girl: Stranger Things and the Inconsistent Representation of Female Empowerment
5.'Something is coming ... ': the Screenwriter as Dungeon Master of Stranger Things
6.'What Happens to Us in the Future?': Stranger Things 3 Goes Back to the Future (1985)
7. Stranger Networks: Ancillary Threats, Cult Nostalgia and Technological Invasions
8.A Nightmare on Maple Street: Anti-Nostalgia and Family Dynamics in Stranger Things
9. Returning Home: Set Design and Visual Storytelling in the Cult World of Stranger Things
10. From 1980s Intertextualities to (Un)faithful 'Inter-Textualities': Stranger Things and Audience-Created Relations Between Media Texts
11. Never Ending Story: How Transmedia Narratives Generate Cults
12. Sponsored Things: Audiences and the Commodification of the Past in Stranger Things.

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