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It's not nostalgia. Stranger Things is fuelling a pseudo-nostalgia of the 1980s

  • Written by: Tom van Laer, Associate Professor of Narratology, University of Sydney
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The 1980s are back, and nowhere more so than in the nostalgia-filled season four of Stranger Things.

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