I thought it was very blatantly RFTG.
-> focus on marginalised group in society (the Kerrigans literally live on the margins, uneducated, bad taste, Aussie accents - film humourises them, but also champions their right to live the way they want to)
-> text is a little resistant - it is clearly opposed to the Barlo Group, but the film is not intended to be socialist. It questions the binary opposition of good/bad. It does challenge the grand narrative of PROGRESS though - key RFTG idea. It also questions the boundaries between high and low culture - it challenges elitism. Basically it approached grand-narratives with ambiguity ( that history is progressive, that economic rationalism will be better for all)
-> ways of thinking: post-modernist (borrows a few elements)
. text is self-reflective - use of satire, film constantly 'checks' itself (eg. When Darrel tells his son to put the gun down - it's also saying 'Don't take this so seriously, this is satire/exaggeration'
. intertextuality - the Aboriginal condition
-> ways of thinking: post-colonial - in that it privledges local culture
-> ways of thinking: Foucault - dominant culture's use of language and language institutions to reinforce its power. (eg. It took Lorry's voice to articulate Darrel's words. And when Judge throws Darrel out of court because he didn't have the knowledge to uphold his case - he lacks the language that institution demanded and thus he is excluded from it.)
Hmmm I think that should be a good start.
