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03992aam a2200277 i 4500 001 0B01725697C711ED9D97ED103FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230119010040 008 180403s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1476671869 020 $a 9781476671864 035 $a (OCoLC)1031041082 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 245 1 $a Uncovering Stranger things : $b essays on eighties nostalgia, cynicism and innocence in the series / $c edited by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 264 1 $a Jefferson, North Carolina : $b McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, $c 2018. 300 $a ix, 252 pages ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 $a Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Stranger (Things) in a Strange Land or, I Love the '80s? (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.); Section I: Popular Culture; The Rebirth of King's Children (Ashley Jae Carranza); Lost Nights and Dangerous Days: Unraveling the Relationship Between Stranger Things and Synthwave (Nicholas Diak); Transmissions from the Upside Down: Post-Punk Sound Waves in Stranger Things (Jennifer Kirby); Competing Nostalgia and Popular Culture: Mad Men and Stranger Things (Ryan Twomey) Stranger Things and Our Memories of Colombian TV in the Late Eighties: Bringing Back ALF, V.I.C.I., Evie and Guri-Guri (Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Sergio Roncallo-Dow)Monsters and Moral Panics: Dungeons & Dragons as Force of Good in Stranger Things (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.); Section II: Cinema; The Eaten-for-Breakfast Club: Teenage Nightmares in Stranger Things (Rose Butler); Women as Stranger Things: Frankensteinian Exploitation and Weaponization of Female Bodies (Melissa A. Kaufler) Not a Princess Anymore: How the Casting of Winona Ryder in Stranger Things Speaks to the Essential Falsehood of 1980s Media Depictions of the American Working Class (Lisa Morton)Stranger (The) Thing: Echoes of John Carpenter in the Series (John Palisano); Spielberg Things: The Nostalgic Heart of Stranger Things (Jacopo Della Quercia); Section III: Gender and Orientation; Revisiting the Monstrous Feminine and Monster Parents in Stranger Things (Elsa M. Carruthers); AIDS, Homophobia and the Monstrous Upside Down: The Queer Subtext of Stranger Things (Emily E. Roach) The Monstrous Queer Child: Mobbing, Bullying and Bad Parenting in the 1980s (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Canela Ailén Rodriguez Fontao and Mariana S. Zárate)Gaslighting, Marginalization and the Well-Coiffed in Stranger Things (Rhonda Jackson Joseph); Badass Mothers: Challenging Nostalgia Brenda Boudreau; Half-Lives of the Nuclear Family: Representations of the Mid-Century American Family in Stranger Things (Anthony David Franklin); The Forgotten Rural: Bungling Police Officers and the Rise of Vigilantism in 1980's Film, Culture and Stranger Things (Dustin Freeley) "Should I Stay or Should I Go?": Stranger Things and the In-Between (Christine Muller)The Upside Down of Education Reform During the Reagan Era: A Re-Examination of Education Policies Through Stranger Things (Ludovic A. Sourdot); "A nice home at the end of the cul-de-sac": Hawkins as Infected Postmodern Suburbia (Lacey N. Smith); The Nine Most Terrifying Words in the English Language (Scott Wartham); The Strangest Thing About Stranger Things (Jimmy Butts); About the Contributors; Index. 520 $a "The Duffer Brothers' celebrated and award-winning series Stranger Things exploded into the pop culture scene in 2016. In twenty-three essays, scholars from all over the world consider how Stranger Things reduces, reuses, and recycles the eighties and the pop culture that decade produced"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20221110. 650 4 $a Stranger things (Television program.) 650 7 $a PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General. 700 $a Wetmore, Kevin J., $d 1969- 941 $a 1 952 $l SWPB124 $d 20230119011805.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0B01725697C711ED9D97ED103FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search