(b. 1908- d. 2009)
Claude Levi-Strauss was a French anthropologist.
What is Binary Opposition?
Binary opposites are "a pair of related concepts which are opposite in meaning". (media-studies.com) They are opposing forces within a media text that move the narrative along, such as good and evil, male and female, black and white, etc...
Levi-Strauss stated that they were the "basic structure of all human cultures", and that binary opposites are needed in "human signifying structures".
Possible influences for my film:
The binary opposition between the final girl and the scream queen, the binary opposition of a heterosexual couple.
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