Premium
Opening Credits
1/19/2025
Dedication
1/19/2025
Acknowledgments
1/19/2025
Introduction: Stranger (Things) in a Strange Land or, I Love the ’80s?
1/19/2025
Section 1: Popular Culture
1/19/2025
Chapter 1: The Rebirth of King’s Children
1/19/2025
Chapter 2: Lost Nights and Dangerous Days
1/19/2025
Chapter 3: Transmissions from the Upside Down
1/19/2025
Chapter 4: Competing Nostalgia and Popular Culture
1/19/2025
Chapter 5: Stranger Things and Our Memories of Colombian TV in the Late Eighties
1/19/2025
Chapter 6: Monsters and Moral Panics
1/19/2025
Section 2: Cinema
1/19/2025
Chapter 7: The Eaten-for-Breakfast Club
1/19/2025
Chapter 8: Women as Stranger Things
1/19/2025
Chapter 9: Not a Princess Anymore
1/19/2025
Chapter 10: Stranger (The) Thing
1/19/2025
Chapter 11: Spielberg Things
1/19/2025
Section 3: Gender and Orientation
1/19/2025
Chapter 12: Revisiting the Monstrous Feminine and Monster Parents in Stranger Things
1/19/2025
Chapter 13: AIDS, Homophobia and the Monstrous Upside Down
1/19/2025
Chapter 14: The Monstrous Queer Child
1/19/2025
Chapter 15: Gaslighting, Marginalization and the Well-Coiffed in Stranger Things
1/19/2025
Chapter 16: Badass Mothers
1/19/2025
Section 4: Society, Culture and Politics of the Eighties
1/19/2025
Chapter 17: Half-Lives of the Nuclear Family
1/19/2025
Chapter 18: The Forgotten Rural
1/19/2025
Chapter 19: “Should I Stay or Should I Go?”
1/19/2025
Chapter 20: The Upside Down of Education Reform During the Reagan Era
1/19/2025
Chapter 21: “A nice home at the end of the cul-de-sac”
1/19/2025
Chapter 22: The Nine Most Terrifying Words in the English Language
1/19/2025
Chapter 23: The Strangest Thing About Stranger Things
1/19/2025
About the Contributors
1/19/2025
Closing Credits
1/19/2025