Buckle's Ambiguity

It seems that the people around us can heavily influence the decisions we make in our everyday life. In “The Harness” by Ernest Buckler, the relationship between seven-year-old David and his father, Art, show that one event can lead to a whole new relationship that changed for the better. Based on these events, it can be said that even the smallest actions can have the most meaning to someone.

Thesis: In The Shifting Heart, the playwright Richard Beynon conveys ideas and representations of Australian identity through the use of narrative techniques, especially dialogue and characterisation. Each character represents an aspect of Australian society in the 1950 's that Beynon perceives to be true. 1st published in 1960. Set in 1956. NUTSHELL-

My initial reaction to the film was of utter shock at the brutally raw reality of the film. Upon reflection and commentary from other sources, the film’s simple yet vastly effective filmmaking techniques of developing the explicit and implicit meaning of the film. The explicit meaning, as

The pub scene in the Australian Outback helped me understand the consequences of prejudice through the combination of dialogue and cinematography. These film features shows the unfair treatment that Aborigines endured because of their race. The mid shots showed how the white Australian audience at the pub Talent Quest ignore the two Aborigine sisters as they began to sin. A panning shot showed the audience’s disapproving and disgusted looks as they avoided eye contact with the sisters. Clearly contrasting with the warm and enthusiastic cheers given to the white Australian performers before them, as also shown in a panning shot. Noticing the coldness of the crowd, Gail says, “Thanks for the half-heart applause.” The dialogue and camera shots clearly outlined the difference in treatment between Aborigines and White Australians in Australia. This clearly shows the inequality between the two races, as Aborigines were clearly mistreated based on their appearance. At the end of the Talent Quest, after the White Australian performer

How each character’s relationship relates to native Australians grows for better or worse throughout the novel. The novel also shows how Grenville has incorporated each personal lifestyle and how it co-exists with the other. The novel incorporates past and modern views about each society and brings to attention controversial issues about Australia’s convict past and how Aborigines are being ostracized for their way of life and skin pigmentation.

The harsh perspective allows the readers to comprehend the immensity of racism and brutality suffered during this time. Although Smasher dies during the brutal massacre of the Aborigines, the massacre itself symbolises his dominating, violent philosophy. If the characters were all as optimistic as some of the other characters such as Blackwood, readers would get an inaccurate and bias description of the events that Kate Grenville recounts in the novel. Smasher’s character is significant because he represents an honest portrayal of the ignorant, cruel and discriminating mindset of many settlers in post-colonial Australia. He challenges the values of many other characters in the text, and in many cases, our own values as readers.

Australian film and television deal with such themes by accepting the reality of Australian contexts. The Australian demographic are known for their rough humour and approach, hence the depiction of an Australian man, or woman, can be taken lightly and not offensively. At the same time, film and television are careful in representing Indigenous Australian as opposed to stereotypical white Australians. It is these historical, political, socio-economic ideologies that shape Australia’s national ‘type’.

‘Coz wetjalas in this town don’t want us ‘ere, don’t want our kids at the school, with their kids…”. His anger grows until the farce of Australia Day in Act Four, when before having a heart attack, he interjects proceedings, shouting, “So [Mitchell] could have a nice, white little town, a nice, white little fuckin’ town.” Jimmy’s inept fury over white occupation and leadership is a vocalisation of all those on the reserves who by definition lack the means and ability to challenge white authority successfully.

Hollywood cinema is primarily subjected to telling stories. The inclination of Hollywood narratives comes not just from good chronicles but from good story telling. The following essay will discuss Hollywood’s commercial aesthetic as applied to storytelling, expand on the characteristics of the “principles of classical film narration” and evaluate alternative modes of narration and other deviations from the classical mode.

In this scene we tended to speak loudly, often finding ourselves shouting and making rude innuendos and racist comments. As we workshopped the scene further, we discussed how this was a representation of the Australian society that we had seen in the media. It could be concluded from my workshop, that in a production of The Removalists this familiarity of character was an opportunity, as it allows the faults within the stereotype to dominate.

Being one of the world’s most popular art forms, it was inevitable that these archetypes would find their way into film as well. In this essay I will argue that the

In the recent decade films have grown to be very popular, I believe that the reason is due to the fact that a movie gives the audience watching a visual experience with diverse emotions and feelings that they would not receive while reading a book. A movie is rated on its ability to suspend reality and immerse the audience in the world the movie. Baz Luhrman the winner of the AACTA Best Director/film has mastered the art of immersing the audience to make them feel like they are part of the movie. He achieves this through cinematic techniques; Baz Luhrman’s ability to immerse the audience has greatly evolved from his debut movies ‘Strictly Ballroom’ to his latest movie ‘The Great Gatsby’. Baz use camera angles and lighting in both movies to firstly hook the audience and secondly to put emphasis on character’s role.

Race is a term which has been widely contested and still precedes much debate in contemporary society. The construction of racial identity is a fundamental issue in relation to the colonial subject. This thesis will examine the importance of race in: Small Island, The Final Passage, and Second-Class Citizen. Recent literary criticism centres upon race and its impact upon social class and gender within society. However, this thesis will argue that race marks a displacement for black migrants in the colonial motherland and racial discrimination in post-war Britain signifies their diasporic history as inferior to British Imperialism. During significant points of contact with white characters, the black females suffer against racial discrimination

One particular shot required camera men to be tied to a pole while others lifted him in order to gain a specific tight close up. We the audience only detect the effect of that specific shot, but do not realize the scope of how difficult a shot is to capture. Argento portrays on screen a smooth methodical masterpiece, what most audience members might not realize the effort placed into each shot to create that

Formal context is a big part to why movies are how they are. In Double Indemnity (1944) clip, by Billy Wilder, there are many formal context elements that are important to why the scenes are the way they are. Some of these are the types of shots, camera movement, lighting, and the mise-en-scene. This paper analyzes the 5 shots in the 2:33 minute scene in depth.