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Stranger Things S1: Episode 1 Flashcards

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Episode 1 title

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= “The Vanishing of Will Byers”

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what is the month & year shown at the start of episode 1

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= November 6th 1983

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what is the opening location?

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= Hawkins National Laboratory U.S Department of Energy

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what game are the boys playing at the start?

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= Dungeons & Dragons

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what is the name of the monster that the boys encounter in Dungeons & Dragons?

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= Demogorgon

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which film is referenced most frequently at the start of episode 1?

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= E.T

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what is the ‘Stranger Things’ title captions and typeface

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= Retro, red neon-style —> intertextual - reminds audiences of 1980s TV captions. reminds us of old Westerns and Wanted
Posters + Stephen King/Star wars

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what is the location shown immediately after the title sequence?

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= Chief Hopper’s house

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what type of camera movement is used when we first Chief Hopper’s house?

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= slow pan

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which visual signifiers help to give us a first impression of Hopper’s character and lifestyle?

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= cigarettes, beer cans, pills

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what is the name of Will’s brother?

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= Jonathan Byers

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what is the name of Will’s mother?

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= Joyce Byers

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what is Mike’s surname?

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= Wheeler

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what is the name of Mike’s sister?

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= Nancy Wheeler

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what is the name of the boys’ school?

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= Hawkins Middle School

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what is the fictional town and US state where the narrative takes place?

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= Hawkins, Indiana

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who are the 4 protagonists?

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= Dustin, Lucas, Mike, Will

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who is Nancy’s boyfriend?

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= Steve Harrington

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the police station contains lots of intertextual parallels to a similar location in which film?

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= Jaws

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who is the director of “Jaws’ and ET’

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= Steven Speilberg

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what does Hopper say when he arrives at the sleepy police station: “Mornings are for ___________”

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= coffee and contemplation

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Hopper gives 2 examples of Hawkins life as sleepy and uneventful, what are they?

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= stealing garden gnomes is regarded as a major crime,
an owl once attacked someone’s head

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who is Lonnie?

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= Joyce Byers’ ex-husband

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who is in charge of the experiments at the laboratory?

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= Dr Brenner

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where does Eleven take refuge?

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= Benny’s Burger Bar

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first shot of Eleven shows which part of her body?

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= bare feet (in the woods)

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what is the Heathkit Ham shack?

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= amateur radio kit

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what club do the boys belong to at school?

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= AV club (audio-visual)

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29
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what is Will’s woodland hide-out called?

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= Castle Byers

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30
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in the flashback, what film has Joyce got tickets for?

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= Poltergeist

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in the flashback where Joyce teases Will, we find out that Will is afraid of something - what is it?

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= clowns

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32
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Will’s fear of clowns could be an intertextual to which book and film? (title and author)

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= Stephen King’s ‘It’

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where is Eleven’s tattoo? what 3 numbers does it show?

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= on her left fore-arm - “011”

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at the Burger Bar, what does Eleven fix through the power of thought? what is the name for this power?

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= a fan and tele-kenesis

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35
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what did Will call the area where they find his abandoned bike?
what famous book is this a reference to? - title and author

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= Mirkwood, “The Hobbit’ by JRR Tolein

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what are the two police officers who work under Hopper?

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= Powell and Callahan

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what electric phenomenon is a common signifier for paranormal activity?

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= flickering lights

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what 2 reasons are why Joyce already has a tough life? (before Will disappears)

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= single mum, working class

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why do you think the episode title uses the word ‘vanishing’ rather than ‘disappearance’?

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= ‘vanishing’ suggests magic, the paranormal or supernatural

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who is Nancy’s school friend who also mysteriously disappears?

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= Barb (Barbara)

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who says “i’m the only one acting normal here”?

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= Mike

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what do we find out about Hopper’s personal life as he leads the search party?

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= his daughter died a few years ago

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43
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describe the character of Mike’s father?

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= weak, passive, helpless, ineffectual

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what 1980s equivalent of phones is used by the boys to communicate?

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= walkie-talkies

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45
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what powers does Eleven have?

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= telekinetic - the ability to move objects by the power of thought

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name 2 of the 1980s songs used in episode 1

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= - White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
- Africa by Toto

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47
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what does Steve Harrington call himself when he climbed into Nancy’s room?

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= a Ninja (another 1980s pop-culture reference)

48
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apart from flickering lights, what is a common audio signifier of paranormal activity?

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= static (white noise) on a phone or a dead phone line

49
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who are the 2 brothers who wrote and directed the series? (first and last names)

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= The Duffer Brothers (Matt & Ross)

50
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what is the name of the young English actor who plays Eleven?

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= Millie Bobby Brown

51
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in which year was Stranger Things first released?

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= July 2016

52
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what is the name for the genre about kids growing up?

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= coming of age

53
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what is a word that means ‘longing for the past’?

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= nostalgia

54
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what is the general location of Stranger Things? (urban, rural, suburban)

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= suburban

55
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suburban ‘small town America’ is often associated in films with what teenage emotion?

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= boredom, frustration, alienation - a desire for adventure, and for something exciting to happen

56
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what is the famous Spielberg film about a killer shark?

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= Jaws

57
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what is the famous Spielberg film about an ExtraTerrestrial creature trapped on planet earth?

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= E.T

58
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another word for ‘tribute’ - (not intertextuality) e.g. when a film copies another film because the director admires it

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= homage

59
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what is the name for a type of film where the director has full editorial control of the whole creative and production process?

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= auteur film

60
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the narrative structure of Stranger Things generally avoids flashbacks, it is a…

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= linear narrative

61
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what is the name of the presence of many different genres and generic elements?

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= hybrid, hybridity

62
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because they have more time to tell the story, Long Form TV dramas are able to develop characters, themes and narratives in more…

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= depth and detail

63
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Long Form TV dramas usually have several storylines. what is another word for these storylines that span an entire series?

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= narrative arcs

64
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give 3 examples of old fashioned 1980s technology that appear in the episode

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= brick sized walkie talkies (Supercoms), old fashioned TVs,
the amateur heathkit ‘Hamshack’ radio

65
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a major theme of the series is mistrust of … (3 examples)

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= adults, government, authority

66
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when Brenner and the agents come after Eleven in Benny’s Burger bar, who do they claim to be working for?

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= social services

67
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what is the name of the new radio kit that arrives at the school’s science club?

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= Heathkit Hamshack

68
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what is the Heathkit Hamshack?

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= an amateur radio that allows users to talk to other users across the world

69
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what is second phase of Todorov’s 3 part structure?

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= disruption

70
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what is another term for a pre-titles sequence?

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= cold opening

71
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list 3 aspects of Eleven’s appearance that suggest she’s a victim

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= hospital style gown, shaved head, 011 tattoo

72
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Eleven’s looks (tattoo, shaved head, hospital style gown) remind us of the iconography of what?

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= Holocaust, Concentrations camp, prison

73
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what words would you use to describe our initial impression of Eleven? (3 words)

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= unusual, misfit, outcast

74
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how old was Milly Bobby Brown when she auditioned for the part of Eleven?

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= 12/13

75
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in the same order, name the characters, played by the following actors: Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp

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= Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Will

76
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name the character played by Noah Schnapp

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= Will Byers

77
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name the character played by Finn Wolfhard

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= Mike Wheeler

78
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name the character played by Gaten Matarazzo

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= Dustin Henderson

79
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name the character played by Caleb McLaughlin

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= Lucas Sinclair

80
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who plays Joyce Byers and why is she significant as an actor?

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= Winona Ryder, the only well-known name before the series started

81
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which company produced Stranger Things?

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= Netflix

82
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what happened to the ideas for the show before it was picked up by Netflix?

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= it was rejected over 15 times

83
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how many boys and girls auditioned for the lead characters?

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= 906 boys + 307 girls

84
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name another film about a group of boys that inspired Stranger Things?

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= Stand by Me

85
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what is Lucas’s surname?

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= Sinclair

86
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what is Dustin’s surname?

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= Henderson

87
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Matt Duffer said that the series met with lots of initial resistance from production companies because they thought that ‘you can’t make something for kids…

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= … that isn’t for kids’

88
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who was the only big name star before the series opened?

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= Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers)

89
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how do we know that series 1 was such a sensation?

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= it took off on social media, especially Instagram

90
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what is the name of the fandom theorist?

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= Henry Jenkins

91
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what is a quotation that helps us to remember Henry Jenkins’ views on fandom?

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= “if it doesn’t spread, it’s dead”

92
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what is approximate cost of each episode in Series 1?

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= 6 million dollars

93
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how much did the season cost in total?

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= approx 48 million dollars

94
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how many episodes are in season 1?

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= 8

95
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what is the average length of each episode?

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= 50 minutes

96
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who are Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen?

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= the show’s producers

97
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original title was Montauk, a place outside New York. - why?

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= Montauk was the location in the original script and also the setting of Spielberg’s classic ‘Jaws’

98
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Netflix allows a series to reach a global audience - in how many countries is Netflix available?

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= over 200

99
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what is the theorist and commentator who coined the term ‘global village’?

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= Marshall McLuhan

100
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what is McLuhan’s term for the shrinking world due to improved communications and technology?

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= global village

101
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globalisation is an important part of Netflix’s business model. It put a lot of effort into ensuring that its products transfer easily to other countries, this is called…

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= localisation

102
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Localisation is a Netflix policy which means they ensure that their products fit well into other languages and cultures. This means putting lots of effort into what specific aspect of translation?

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= subtitling

103
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where was there a big Season 2 premiere promotional launch? how does this differ from Season 1?

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= Sidney Opera House, Season 1 had no hype or big promotional marketing budget

104
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what is the term for a climatic ending, full of suspense, that leaves viewers wondering what will happen next?

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= cliff hanger

105
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multiple storylines (narrative arcs) mean that episodes can have numerous points where the action is suspended and the narrative focus switches to another character/event. these suspense points can be called…

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= internal cliff-hangers

106
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what is another word for lead character?

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= protagonist

107
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who is the theorist who talks about the commercial power of media corporations?

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= David Hesmondhalgh

108
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according to Hesmondhalgh, media corporations produce can commercially make products successful by using what strategies?

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= horizontal integration (buying up rivals), vertical integration (buying up companies in the production chain), avoiding risk by using accepted formats, formulas, sequels, genres and stars

109
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which of Gerbner’s theories could be relevant to Stranger Things? - clue: anxiety and pessimism

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= mean world syndrome

110
Q

what type of service is Netflix?

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= streaming on demand

111
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what did the success of Season 1 mainly depend on?

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= social media, word of mouth, viral ‘buzz’

112
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who is the post-modernist theorist that linked to intertextuality, replica and reinvention

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= Baudrillard

113
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which aspects of Baudrillards ideas could link to Stranger Things? - give 4 words

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= imitation, homage, reinvention,
intertextuality

114
Q

according to Steve Neale, genre is ‘instances of ___ and ___’ ?

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= repetition and difference

115
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what is the term for techniques that keep the audience guessing and wanting to find out more?

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= enigma codes

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