English quotes - Module A

Thesis

Texts reveal how language both reflects and challenges cultural values, exposing the ways dominant ideologies shape individual and collective identities. By disrupting entrenched power structures and amplifying marginalised perspectives, composers encourage audiences to reconsider notions of belonging, identity and cultural understanding.

Superiority beliefs - white settler family

Long shot of the white settler family travelling along the dust road in a carriage while an Indigenous family walks along the side accompanied by the non-diagetic high pitched flute

Superiority beliefs - daugter

Jim states ‘Thats my daughter out there, I’m not having some darky leading the search” accompanied by minor string chords

Superiority beliefs - guilt

The insert shot of the bullet in Jim’s outstretched hand

Feminine identities - Rose imposed

the low pitched melancholic strings and mid-shot of Rose’s harsh facial expressions

Feminine identities - Rose redefined

The long shot depicting Rose walking through the bush with lyrics “unfinished business”

Feminine identities - Rose and Albert

The two shot of Albert and Rose facing each other

Dismantling/shifting beliefs - R and A working together

The long shot depicting Rose and Albert walking across the grassy moonlit landscape and melodic warmed toned vocals “You and Me”

Dismantling/shifting beliefs - lost child trope

The mid shot of the colonial homestead as Albert hands Jim Emilys body

Others

Vocals “This land is mine” “This land is me” - long shot of men walking together in straight line