Filmed in 1955 Jedda was the first Australian feature film to use
Aboriginal actors in lead roles, the first to be filmed in colour
and the first to be shown at the Cannes film festival. It tells the
tragic story of a young Aboriginal girl of the Arunte tribe,
adopted by a white woman, Sarah McCann, as a surrogate for her own
baby who has died. She raises her as a white child, isolating her
from Aboriginal contact. But when Marbuck, an Aboriginal man
seeking work arrives on the station, Jedda is fascinated by him.
Jedda was one of several popular melodramas of the post-World War
II era that dealt with miscegenation. Mills explores these themes
and the representation of the Australian Aborigine, while making
comparisons to the Native American sub-genre of the Hollywood
Western.
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