Thursday, 19 February 2015

Claude Levi-Strauss - Binary Opposition

Claude Levi-Strauss made the theory of binary opposition which is useful for the film industry as they can use to contrast the opposites.


some examples:
  • light - darkness
  • noise - silence
  • strength - weakness
  • past - present
  • happiness - sadness
  • inside - outside
  • life - death
  • big - small
  • individual - universal
  • order - disorder
  • utopia - dystopia
  • dreams - nightmares


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