HI 347V

Politics & Culture 80s America

Stranger Things: Politics, Memory and Culture in 1980s America addresses cultural, political, and social history from the late 1970s up until the Cold War's end in 1991. The course draws on a wide range of ideologies, institutions, groups, and events that shaped gendered, sexual, cultural, economic, and racial experiences in America's not-so-distant past. The course also considers topics such as nostalgia, identity, the final years of the Cold War, activism, queer experiences, music, film, and television, alongside U.S. political history.