Differences Between Utopia And No Sugar
What do you get when a play writer and a documentary maker walks into a bar? A comparative speech.
The differences of text modes do not limit the similarities in issues and or ideas each mode explores. A documentary and a play would be perceive to be nothing alike, one with a serious front and one aiming to entertain a crowd. But John Pilger’s Utopia and Jack Davis’s No sugar, both explore and showcase the issues the Aboriginal culture faces in a post-colonial Australian society. The issue of Aboriginals being treated as obstacles towards a ‘better Australia’ is apparent in both of these modes, but what separates the modes is the way this issue is presented through the various dramatic and documentary conventions. Through the contrasting
of conventions and modes ultimately manipulates the text to draw in different crowds of individuals who will fuel and respond to the purpose of the text.
The differences of text modes do not limit the similarities in issues and or ideas each mode explores. A documentary and a play would be perceive to be nothing alike, one with a serious front and one aiming to entertain a crowd. But John Pilger’s Utopia and Jack Davis’s No sugar, both explore and showcase the issues the Aboriginal culture faces in a post-colonial Australian society. The issue of Aboriginals being treated as obstacles towards a ‘better Australia’ is apparent in both of these modes, but what separates the modes is the way this issue is presented through the various dramatic and documentary conventions. Through the contrasting
of conventions and modes ultimately manipulates the text to draw in different crowds of individuals who will fuel and respond to the purpose of the text.