Original Theorists

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Roland Barthe


- born: 12 November 1915 
- died: 1980
French theorist, philosopher, critic and semiotician
- he had a license in grammer and philosophy 
1953 he made his full length work writing degree zero
- theories: cultural, action, symbolic and enigma 


Todorov


- born: 1 March 1939
- he had influences from the 1960's and further 
- published 21 books
- theories: - stories start with an equal balance of opposing forces 
                - the balance is then thrown by an event 
                - this causes a problem which needs to be solved
- for life on mars: gets trapped in the past through the  car crash and then he tries to solve the problem by getting back to thecurrent day  


Levi-Strauss


- French theorist 
- dies at the age of 100
- around the war period he was very influential 
- theory: there are always binary opposites in films
- life on mars: the obvious contrast between the 70's and the present day 

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