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 'monsters'

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