Titlebook: Investigating Stranger Things; Upside Down in the W Tracey Mollet,Lindsey Scott Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s),

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‘There’s More to Life Than Stupid Boys’:?the (Re)Gendering of Cult Teen Drama in With its focus on school, fighting monsters, teenage superpowers and the fantastical, . sits firmly within the subgenre of cult teenage drama, having much in common with television series such as . (.–.).

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Flirting with the Final Girl: , and the Inconsistent Representation of Female EmpowermentPresenting its diegetic world as a site of persistent upheaval, . adopts the willingness to destabilise archetypes and challenge hegemonic norms that characterises so many of its formative intertexts, figuring the small American town of Hawkins as a locus of change where place and identity are in constant flux.

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‘Something is Coming …’: the Screenwriter as Dungeon Master of Of all the nostalgic pop cultural references and Easter eggs populating the Duffer Brothers’ ., the archetypal tabletop role-playing game . is key to the series’ cult appeal.

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Sponsored Things: Audiences and the Commodification of the Past in , with its extensive references to 1980s culture, could be considered a true repertory of that decade. The show’s nostalgic aesthetics and mood has secured the attention of Generation X and encouraged a contemporary retrieval and revival of pop texts, fashion and music from the period.

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Stranger Networks: Ancillary Threats, Cult Nostalgia and Technological Invasionsrn cultural nostalgia for an idealised 1980s America. The show’s saturation with references to a plethora of cult media - such as . (1982) or . (1985) - encourages recognition within its audience through a self-conscious awareness of its tropes and cultural heritage. Several interpretations of . att

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