Colonial Dreamings: Race and Imaginative Landscapes in One Night the Moon

Rachel Perkins' 2001 film explores the darkness of the Australian landscape and the fatal clash of European sensibilities with Aboriginal culture and spirituality in this haunting modern musical, writes Jasmine Crittenden.

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Film as Text, senior secondary, Rachel Perkins, Paul Kelly, colonialisation, Australian history, Indigenous Australia, Aboriginal Australia, musical, genre, period film, Australian cinema, lyrics, European settlers.