Cinematic Structuralism

“…Propp pointed out certain constancies, which we may assume to be rule-governed. For instance, functions were paired or grouped in fixed patterns of association, coincidence or order. Thus, where “pursuit” occured, there would also be “rescue”, and in that order.”

https://webapps.cspace.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/imageserver/blobs/a238a9ea-1f47-4bb2-b58d/content/linked_pdf:

“For poststructuralists, a "text" was no longer a finished, self-contained object that could be "explained" by the analyst, thereby rejecting the assumption under which structuralists had operated. Rather, according to Derrida, the text—whether literature, film, advertisement, or any cultural form—is first produced in the act of "reading," or interpretation. Although poststructuralists still deployed semiological terminology (sign, signifier, signified), they did so to criticize notions of stable signifying systems (although many poststructuralists were in fact Marxists).”

“…structuralism's claim that objects exist only in their relation to one another causes its analyses to be synchronic (ahistorical) rather than diachronic (historical).”

“Structuralism's scientific method helped advance film studies beyond the discourse of film appreciation. Poststructuralism, for its part, leaves behind a critical climate which encourages long-held assumptions to be challenged, invigorating our understanding of the medium.“

http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia/Romantic-Comedy-Yugoslavia/Structuralism-and-Poststructuralism-POSTSTRUCTURALISM-FROMSYSTEM-TO-SUBVERSION.html