Investigating Stranger Things

Tracey Mollet, Lindsey Scott

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This book, edited by Tracey Mollet and Lindsey Scott, offers a comprehensive critical examination of Netflix's Stranger Things, exploring its narrative, genre, fandom, and cultural significance within cult media and the modern television landscape.

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This comprehensive edited collection delves into the intricate narrative structures, genre conventions, pervasive nostalgia, and dedicated fandoms surrounding the hugely successful Netflix original series, Stranger Things. It gathers together an esteemed group of scholars from diverse fields including media studies, humanities, communications, and cultural studies. Their collective aim is to critically examine how the Duffer Brothers' creation both subverts and reinforces existing academic understandings of cult media. The book is organized into three distinct sections—texts, contexts, and receptions—each designed to explore different facets of the series' significant presence in popular culture. It actively engages with ongoing academic debates concerning cult horror, the teen drama genre, contemporary fan practices, and the broader cultural anxieties prevalent during the Trump era. Furthermore, individual chapters within the collection specifically address areas often overlooked in cult media scholarship, such as the meticulous set design, the show's distinctive fashion aesthetics, and the immersive Secret Cinema Experience. These in-depth discussions also serve to illustrate how the landscape of cult texts is profoundly shaped and enabled by the modern television era, where traditional notions of medium specificity have undergone fundamental transformations, and streaming platforms provide unparalleled opportunities for extensive critical analysis within what has now become a mainstream realm of cult entertainment.

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Investigating Stranger Things, written by Tracey Mollet, Lindsey Scott and published on 18-05-2021, is included in our catalog for information queries and ebook downloads in epub or pdf format.

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