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Power of language Language forms (dialogue, meaning through song, visual imagery, musical)
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Crosscultural significance of land vs. varied cultural attitudes towards land. European ownership and control “ This land is m ine … all the way to the old f ence line ” (first person possessive, symbolism) Musical language, high octave range singing = proclaiming power over land Extreme wide shot, search party, straight line formation, systematic, masculine bravado → intention to dominate ❏ Indigenous understanding and oneness ❏ “ This land is me… this land owns me ”, humans part of land, ❏ Musical language, sings in low smooth tone + wide shots walking alone = intimate connection with land ➔ Two families travelling to church miseenscene = above land vs with land
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Racism, arrogance and discrimination prevents communal identity of humanity “ What’s he doing here?... I don’t want some darky leading the search ” Dissonant legato string section = tense, menacing atmosphere Body language dismisses Albert, “ some darky leading” = incompetence, inferiority, lack of respect Music stops “ No blacks on my land ” = salient high modality language Harsh, arrogant, racist Alberts silence symbolic of disempowerment and marginalisation Jims refusal to accept the help of Albert ● Universal significance of family and human life Shared attitude of importance of family Cinematography slow atheirial camera movement Intimate lullaby scene, Emily and Rose body language, Father enters, sing lullaby in harmonic unison over major chord progression = cultivates positive, warm mood > nuclear family ❏ Gathering of indigenous people at Alberts home miseenscene ❏ Mirrored use of major chord progression on banjor ❏ Europeans > Nuclear family, Indigenous > Extended open family ➔ Funeral scene, three cultural identities, European, Aboriginal, Catholic ➔ European Rose and her family, string instrument playing single bass note ➔ Aboriginal Albert and his wife signing ➔ Catholic/Religious Priest dress in robes, cross over Emily’s grave ➔ Everyone in the scene, regardless of cultural identity, understands ➔ Through the use of music, costuming and miseenscene