Media Studies A-Level
Binary oppositions in structuralism
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Pairs of elements whose relations and oppositions generate meaning, with cultural codes supplying the conventional values placed on each side.
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- Cultural codes
- Decoding through cultural knowledge
- Lévi-Strauss
- Meaning-making in media texts
- Opposition and difference
- Privileging and devaluing in binary oppositions
- Structuralism
- Textual evidence for interpretation
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