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LFTVD TIMED ASSESSMENT [LOCKDOWN]

  “LFTVD'S LACK ORIGINALITY;  NO MATTER WHAT COUNTRY THEY'RE MADE IN, THEY ALL USE INTERTEXTUALITY IN THE SAME WAY. ” HOW FAR DO YOU AGREE? [30]   L ong form TV dramas are often reflective of the  history of film and TV , using intertextuality to their advantage  and creating new narratives from familiar codes and conventions , but this tool doesn’t necessarily indica te a lack of originality.  In fact, often the opposite is the case. It takes a great deal of  creative  intuition to manipulate genres to be your own  and  create an  entirely new narrative .   Stranger Things very much finds its success in the engagement of mass international  millennial /Gen Z audiences in 2016 through  what   Neale would call a  hybridization  of genres  and overall manipulation of intertextuality from 1980s  Spielbergian  movies in order to attract secondary adult audiences by enabling a sens e of nostal...