Editors:
- Considers how Stranger Things fits within the paradigm of cult film and/or cult television
- Explores how Stranger Things challenges or confirms our ideas of cult media products in terms of narrative, transmediality and fandoms
- The first book to consider audiences of Stranger Things
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Texts
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Contexts
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Front Matter
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Receptions
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Back Matter
About this book
This edited collection explores the narrative, genre, nostalgia and fandoms of the phenomenally successful Netflix original series, Stranger Things. The book brings together scholars in the fields of media, humanities, communications and cultural studies to consider the various ways in which the Duffer Brothers’ show both challenges and confirms pre-conceived notions of cult media. Through its three sections on texts, contexts and receptions, the collection examines all aspects of the series’ presence in popular culture, engaging in debates surrounding cult horror, teen drama, fan practices, and contemporary anxieties in the era of Trump. Its chapters seek to address relatively neglected areas of scholarship in the realm of cult media, such as set design, fashion, and the immersive Secret Cinema Experience. These discussions 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 up shows to extensive analysis in the now mainstream world of cult entertainment.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Tracey Mollet
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School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK
Lindsey Scott
About the editors
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 essays on Stranger Things.
Lindsey Scott is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Suffolk, UK, where she teaches adaptation studies, children’s literature, and gothic horror in young adult fiction. Her work has appeared in edited collections and journals including Literature/Film Quarterly, Cinephile and Shakespeare Survey. She is currently writing on horror in children’s literature and popular culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Investigating Stranger Things
Book Subtitle: Upside Down in the World of Mainstream Cult Entertainment
Editors: Tracey Mollet, Lindsey Scott
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66314-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66313-1Published: 19 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66316-2Published: 19 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66314-8Published: 18 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 253
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: American Cinema and TV, Popular Culture , Film/TV Industry, Film and TV Production