This analysis examines youth and beauty ideals in cinema, revealing cultural impacts on women, suggesting structuralist and semiotic frameworks are vital.
Key Points
The analysis reveals the construction of beauty and youth as social ideals for women, shaping their identities.
Key binary oppositions in the film Substance include youth versus old age and natural beauty versus artificial beauty.
Employing Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism and Barthes’s semiotics, the study critiques gender norms in popular culture.
This examination highlights the struggles women face against imposed beauty standards and distorted body perceptions.