ion homestead. This setting not only represents Anglo-Australian culure and civilisation, but is the main setting in which we discover more about some of the main characters through the use of symbolism. One scene that shows Chauvel’s incorporation of clear symbolism is the juxtaposition of images of Jedda’s fingers moving over the piano keys with images of an Aboriginal shield mounted on the wall behind the piano, thus symbolising her internal cultural conflict. The music used in this scene, the drowning out of the piano piece by tribal shouting, also symbolises Jedda’s internal cultural conflict as well as her inability to deny her Aboriginal identity. Another, of the same importance, is one of the very first scenes in the homestead, showing Mrs McMahon talking on the radio; this scene represents Mrs McMahon’s isolation from the rest of civilisation. Through the use of camera angles and music, the audience is able to pick up vital information about certain situations and characters in this particular domestic landscape.In conclusion, representations of the Australian landscape have been depicted to the audience particularly though filmic techniques such as camera angels and music. These representations of the landscape in the flim Jedda highlight Chauvel’s ideological views, and while the film not a realistic depiction of life, or a conflict between European and Aborigine (as it is often taken to be), or an entire mishmash of Hollywood images and romanticism transferred to Australia, it represents the ideological position of Chauvel. ...
