Very Familiar Things: Captivity and Female Fierceness in Stranger Things

This article examines the ways in which the TV series Stranger Things adopts selected tropes of the Indian captivity narrative and of the Puritan Weltanschauung to build a horror narrative that many found to be relevant, relatable, and enthralling. Studying Stranger Things’ system of selective citat...

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Autor principal:	Elena Furlanetto
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Publicado:	New York City College of Technology 2019
Materias:	captivity narratives stranger things resilience female fierceness hollywood horror History of scholarship and learning. The humanities AZ20-999 Language and Literature P Literature (General) PN1-6790
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d6a1317627784cb9a3fa15d4d4ff32a12021-11-08T19:01:19ZVery Familiar Things: Captivity and Female Fierceness in Stranger Things2160-0104https://doaj.org/article/d6a1317627784cb9a3fa15d4d4ff32a12019-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://nanocrit.com/issues/issue14/Very-Familiar-Things-Captivity-and-Female-Fierceness-in-Stranger-Thingshttps://doaj.org/toc/2160-0104This article examines the ways in which the TV series Stranger Things adopts selected tropes of the Indian captivity narrative and of the Puritan Weltanschauung to build a horror narrative that many found to be relevant, relatable, and enthralling. Studying Stranger Things’ system of selective citation of the captivity narrative is useful to identify a lineage that leads from Puritan to Hollywood horror, and to show the resilience of a genre across the centuries. The paper examines narrative situations in Stranger Things that are strongly reminiscent of the captivity narrative, such as the two intersecting captivities of William Byers and Eleven, the wilderness, concentric circles of evil, the dismissal of the Other, and typology as a means of sense-making. Due to its centrality for both the Indian captivity narrative and Stranger Things, the last part concentrates on the theme of female fierceness.Elena FurlanettoNew York City College of Technologyarticlecaptivity narrativesstranger thingsresiliencefemale fiercenesshollywood horrorHistory of scholarship and learning. The humanitiesAZ20-999Language and LiteraturePLiterature (General)PN1-6790ENNANO, Iss 14 (2019)
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description	This article examines the ways in which the TV series Stranger Things adopts selected tropes of the Indian captivity narrative and of the Puritan Weltanschauung to build a horror narrative that many found to be relevant, relatable, and enthralling. Studying Stranger Things’ system of selective citation of the captivity narrative is useful to identify a lineage that leads from Puritan to Hollywood horror, and to show the resilience of a genre across the centuries. The paper examines narrative situations in Stranger Things that are strongly reminiscent of the captivity narrative, such as the two intersecting captivities of William Byers and Eleven, the wilderness, concentric circles of evil, the dismissal of the Other, and typology as a means of sense-making. Due to its centrality for both the Indian captivity narrative and Stranger Things, the last part concentrates on the theme of female fierceness.
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title	Very Familiar Things: Captivity and Female Fierceness in Stranger Things
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Very Familiar Things: Captivity and Female Fierceness in Stranger Things

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