AustLit
Units Teaching this Work
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
---|---|---|---|
form
y
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
( dir. Bruce Beresford
)
Sydney
:
Longford Productions
,
1972
Z400738
1972
single work
film/TV
humour
satire
(taught in 2 units)
After he comes into a small inheritance, Barry McKenzie (aka Bazza) decides to visit England with his aunt, which leads to many humerus and some not-so-humorous incidents with Poms from all persuasions and classes. As Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper note: 'The narrative offers a 'vigorous parody of the Australian "ocker," anti-intellectual, xenophobic, obsessed with beer and sex but never capable of relating positively with women, using a vernacular of prodigious vulgarity and inventiveness, and totally oblivious of anything beyond his own narrow conception of the order of things' (1980, p. 340). |
Australian Film | King's College London | 2009 |
form
y
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
( dir. Bruce Beresford
)
Sydney
:
Longford Productions
,
1972
Z400738
1972
single work
film/TV
humour
satire
(taught in 2 units)
After he comes into a small inheritance, Barry McKenzie (aka Bazza) decides to visit England with his aunt, which leads to many humerus and some not-so-humorous incidents with Poms from all persuasions and classes. As Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper note: 'The narrative offers a 'vigorous parody of the Australian "ocker," anti-intellectual, xenophobic, obsessed with beer and sex but never capable of relating positively with women, using a vernacular of prodigious vulgarity and inventiveness, and totally oblivious of anything beyond his own narrow conception of the order of things' (1980, p. 340). |
Upfront: History of Film in Australia | University of the Sunshine Coast | 2015 (Semester 1) |