LFTVD- Question 3 - paragraph 4, 5 and 6

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We could say that the content is also influenced by the audiences' cultural awareness and backgrounds. Stranger things has a millennial audience who would feel nostalgic when watching the shows, due to their bringing up of 80's films and Steven Spielberg. To achieve this emotion, The Duffer Brothers have included intertextual relay into stranger things, with the references to E.T, Alien and the Goonies, making it more interesting and nostalgic for the older audience. The repetition of the references and intertextual relay throughout the years highlights Hesmondhalgh's theory that big companies like Netflix have the ability to reproduce the well known narratives and story lines so that it can appeal to an older audience, and therefore market success.

 The Narrative of the Killing is in ways similar to Stranger Things, like the disappearanc of Nanna Birk Larsen and Will Byers, but DR chose to include representations of gender and sexuality, compared to Stranger Things. Sarah Lund breaks the barrier of female stereotypes, by acting as a hard police detective, which is mainly fitted with men. It is filled by Meyer, representing Butler's gender performativity theory. Stranger Things and the Killing are both set in fixed times and places. The Killing is set in the beginning of Danish elections and in modern day Denmark. Whereas, Stranger Things is set in 1980's USA where there is fear of the unknown.

 Ultimately, i think the codes and conventions do reflect the attitudes, values and beliefs of their key audiences of the two different shows, one a global mass audience and the other a regional niche audience. Stranger Things ability to use repetition and multiple genres have attracted a mass audience, compared to the killing who use serious narratives and political understandings to appeal to their smaller audience. Overall, the difference in the productions between the two shows highlight the different ownership structures of Netflix and DR. 

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