Media Studies A-Level
Binary oppositions
What Binary oppositions means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Binary oppositions
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Pairs a text sets up, such as hero and villain, which deconstruction examines as constructed and made to seem stable.
Topics that use Binary oppositions
Related terms
- Binary oppositions in structuralism
- Cultural codes
- Decoding through cultural knowledge
- Lévi-Strauss
- Meaning-making in media texts
- Opposition and difference
- Privileging and devaluing in binary oppositions
- Structuralism
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