‘Something from your life, something that angers you…’: Female rage and redemption in Netflix’s Stranger Things (2016-2017)

Kathleen Hudson Abstract: The Netflix series Stranger Things (2016-2017) negotiates the boundaries of genre and gender in its depictions of female rage. While ‘strong women’ archetypes in 1980s horror and science fiction novels and films are often labelled problematically ‘other’, the proactive emotional investment of characters such as Joyce Byers and Eleven positions female anger, particularly when … Continue reading ‘Something from your life, something that angers you…’: Female rage and redemption in Netflix’s Stranger Things (2016-2017)