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Genre in stranger things

Genre is a category of entertainment that changes rapidly.
Stranger things is a polygeneric show including teenage love story, si-fi, high school drama, buddy, thriller, horror and coming of age genres. Stranger things is heavily influenced by 80s films making genres evoke (intertextual relay)
Steve Neale’s genre theory -
Genres are not fixed, it constantly evolves and becomes genre Hybrid.
David hesmondhalgh -
Narratives repeat themselves
pastiche - eleven is based on 3 characters: E.T, the girl from fire starter and Carrie.
Stranger things embraces intertextuality.

Intertextuality
- E.T
- nightmare on elm street
- goonies
- stand by me
- shining
- alien
- poltergeist
- Carrie
- fire starter
- commando
- close encounter of the third kind
- explorers .




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