Levi strauss- Binary opposition theory.

Strauss was a french anthropologist who lived in the early 1900's. He believed that the way we understand certain words depends not so much on any meaning they themselves directly contain, but much more by our understanding of the difference between the word and its 'opposite' or, as he called it 'binary opposites'. For example, our understanding of the word "villain" depends on the difference between that word and the opposing word "hero". Within the media field, binary oppositions are used very frequently in films, especially in the horror genre. Many horror films include sets of binary oppositions in their plots. Particularly good and evil, sane and insane, rational and irrational and human and supernatural. Our own movie utilises this highly influential theory. It includes several binary oppositions in terms of character, such as introvert and extrovert (protagonist and boy who dies) and sane and insane (protagonist and her friends). These oppositions are very conventional of horror films, therefore will familiarize our audience with the genre.