STRANGER THINGS RESEARCH
Key areas of representation - Age (teenagers) school environment younger through to older Family parent figures siblings (older and younger) Sci-Fi genre darker / mysterious scenes unnatural 'creatures' Gender introduced to a group of boys female lead characters are later introduced Links with the 80's - films from the decade of a science-fiction genre ET Close Encounters of the Third Kind Blade Runner The Thing The Terminator Back to the Future Robocop The Fly Tron Aliens Links between ET & Stranger Things - moody torchlight searching kids on bike outrunning a government organisation Eleven explores Mike's home with the same naivety as ET the disguise given to Eleven to blend her in at school is similar to what happens when Gertie gives ET a make-over children from a small town befriend and protect an otherworldly being getting weapons from sheds to fight 'monst