Claude Levi-Stauss was a french structuralist and lived during the 1970's. He is famous for putting together his film theory known as the 'binary oppositions'.
In order to find he oppsitions, Struss was less interested in..
1) Syntagmatic relations
-How events line up in the narrative structure, which then develop the plot.
He was most interested in..
2) Paradigtic Relations
-Those events and features that belong to the theme of the piece, especially within genre based texts.
He used the 'western' film genre to develop his theory of binary oppsitions:
Homesteaders Native
Christian Pagen
Domestic Savage
Weak Strong
Garden Wilderness
Inside Society Outisde society
All of these are opposites t one another.
The horror gere of film is also a good example f opposites in films; good + Evil. Another example of this is evident in the crime genre.
law criminals
mean strong
safe streets means streets
sane mad
poor rich
detective villian
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