Stranger Things - Represenntations

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Representation Pleasures:

  • Audience sees something/someone they can relate to.
  • We like to see ourselves on screen.
  • Put ourselves into shoes of the protagonist and feel part of that world.
Representations tend to be quite similar and they all tend to just be of white men. 
Minority representation - may be a challenge.
Seeing your world - e.g. teenage life, high school, domestic settings (seeing something that's like the world you live in)
Seeing versions of your childhood/like your past, 80s nostalgia.

Stranger Things shows us the world of the 1980s
  • Yuppies
  • MTV
  • Gaming
  • Cold War
Stranger Things is not that interested in representing the social political america in he 1980s. This is what makes it more a post modern product. 

Representation:

Suburbia


Science


The Family
  • Concentrates on two main families
  • Nuclear Family - Wheelers
  • Byers Family - Single Parent

Class


Education
  • Important? - Nancy trying to concentrate on her work but being distracted by Steve.
  • American High School
  • Most students always have books around with them
  • Warm Safe Place 
  • There are aspects of bullying too.

Authority (Police)
  • Chief Hopper - Irresponsible - Didn't want to handle Joyce Byers just wanted to drink coffee and eat his donut. 
  • Police are lazy and disengaged from their community
  • Subverts this representation by the end.

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