20th century women
Ten Hidden Gems on Netflix to Watch This Summer
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There’s nothing like a good Netflix bender to restore your mental health after a stressful semester and finals season.
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Time at Cornell Helped to Shape ‘Stranger Things’ Producer
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Dan Cohen ’05, executive producer of Stranger Things, reflected on how his love of writing and interest in cinema shaped his career during a lecture in a packed Goldwin Smith Hall auditorium on Friday.
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Screenwriter Describes ‘Stranger Things’ Title Selection, Casting Calls
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Detailing the creation of Stranger Things, Tatlock said the first six weeks of the process took place in the writer’s room, where she and the other writers “sat together around a big table and we banged out the story.”
Arts & Culture
GOLDFINE | On Stranger Things’ Subtle Deconstruction of ‘Female Hysteria’
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When a woman goes crazy in a movie or on TV, we greet the sub-plot with a sigh of comfortable familiarity. Our intellectual subconscious breathes an “ahhhh.” We relax. We see what’s going on; we likely knew all along. As cinephiles and society-existers alike, we have been dutifully trained to unconditionally accept that a woman having lost her mind is a highly plausible explanation for her doing or saying, well… anything really — and also that such a turn of events is a Dark, Provocative and Highly Legitimate plot-thickening cinematic juncture.
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Stranger Things Puts the Science (And Much More) Back in Science Fiction
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When you watch Stranger Things, you are immediately transported into a relic of the 1980s. It was a time when adventure was sought out, science was deemed cool and heroism was somewhat synonymous with nerdiness. We are introduced to our heros — four boys around ten years old who strive for scientific exploration, fantastical adventure and unbreakable friendship — and, as viewers, immediately become attached to them. From the beginning of the first episode, there is an underlying element of supernaturalness that becomes much more overt later in the hour. However, unlike most shows for which the basis of the storyline is made up of supernatural events, this show isn’t nauseatingly cheesy or predictable.