Drawing heavily on popular culture of the early 1980s, Stranger Things revisits the era’s fractured notions of family through the perspective of its characters. Eleven finds home, like many other children of the 1980s, in dependable friends, acquaintances who have suffered similar circumstances, and pseudo-stepdads. In the final two seasons, home is depicted as a site of trauma and as a contested place. Eleven’s ambiguous ending ultimately complicates the meaning of “home” in the series.
In the final season of Stranger Things, Holly Wheeler’s disobedience to Henry/Vecna opens up a discussion about female agency in fairy tales. Unlike fairy tale tradition, Holly’s disobedience is unequivocally rewarded. This paper investigates the meaning of “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Bluebeard” and, translating them...
Stranger Things rode a wave of 80s nostalgia dominating pop culture. Borrowing visual aesthetics, soundtrack, themes, and actors of the time, the show strove to feel like a genuine 80s creation. The tension between old and new persists in more than just the format of the show: the entire show walks a tightrope between...
This article traces the influence of
Katallagete
upon the ministry of the author when, as a young pastor in the early 1980s, he discovered archived issues of the journal going back to 1965. The writings and lives of Will Campbell, William Stringfellow, Thomas Merton, and Fannie Lou Hamer became central. Ms. Hamer’s...
Kyle Childress· Review & Expositor· 0 citations
The author, who works at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of the University of California, Los Angeles, tells us that he is working on an English edition of Platina, De honesta voluptate et valetudine, and adds: 'it may amuse you to know that if Hannah Glasse really was the sister or half-sister of Lance...
Simon Varey· Petits Propos Culinaires· 0 citations
This article reconsiders James Baldwin’s belated pan-Africanism by way of
my first encounter with his work in a class taught by Amiri Baraka. It argues
that Baldwin’s returns, beginning in the late 1950s, to the national
territory of the civil rights movement did not come at the cost of his growing
Black internatio...
William J. Maxwell· James Baldwin Review· 0 citations
Jordan Braverman's eloquent narrative account of media participation in World War II is comprehensive enough to satisfy the most rigorous academic standards, but written to be accessible to all readers. To Hasten the Homecoming is an important cultural history of the American home front during World War II, which exami...
J. Braverman· 0 citations
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