Levi-Strauss' Binary Opposition

In the 1900's Strauss was a French anthropologist who believed that the way we could understand certain words depending on the meaning they contain, so his theory is based on understanding the difference between the word and its 'opposite', as he calls it 'binary opposites'.

Binary oppositions within the media field often come up in films, especially in the horror genre. Most horror films include elements of binary oppositions in their narratives. Some examples of binary oppositions in films would be good and evil, sane and insane, rational and irrational and human and supernatural.