Structuralism

On our fourth lesson, we learn about structuralism. I always heard all these term during my History of Art class but i never knew that this term is actually relevant to media.

As we normally know, structuralism came from the word "structure".  The meaning of that is how we categories or build up our ideas. The ideas or stuff construct or structure very naturally. Structuralism can also be categories as linguistic, narratology and anthropology. We can structure our ideas by using diagrams, table, frames or in any way that we feel comfortable on and which can be differentiate.

In structuralism, there is a binary opposition of categorize which brings out the center part of both different categories.  Binary opposition put the words into categories then find the center part which relates to both of the categories. This is very interesting to me. This help me to understand how some of the ideas in the movie came from. For example, vampire categories in the middle of human and animal or alive and dead. I use illustrator to draw a diagram to let me understand further.

I also understand that post-structuralism also known as deconstruction. Deconstruction actually wants to show no different between both sides. They also categories it as 2 part but the center part, they try to think futher which is not only the equal side of both part.