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USA in the 1980s.
- rise of Yuppie culture
- cable goes mainstream, MTV music video programme
- spread of aids/ HIV
- developments in the space programme
- war on drugs
- tense relations with Iran
- 1981 cuts, economy programme, yet government spending on military
- electronics development, Nintendo console
- oil spill in 1989
- 1987 Wall Street crash
- the assassination of John Lennon
- Cold War ends and concern shifts to China.
- overall fear of the unknown

How does stranger things mirror the 80s?
The highest grossing film in the 80’s was E.T. Stranger things uses intertextuality from E.T as well as  similar components (scenes and characters e.g eleven) to mirror the 1980s despite being made in 2016. Steven Kings IT similarly uses a group of misfit friends as heroes - anti-hero as well as other recurring themes such as high school and mystery which are presented constantly throughout stranger things. The duffer brothers have used the work of Steven King and Spielberg through intertextuality to create nostalgia.

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