ENGL 2066 - Australian Classics: Literature and Film

This course explores a range of Australian literary, dramatic and filmic texts that have come to be regarded as 'classics'. It examines texts in their historical context, discovering the ways the texts may have appealed to original and later audiences, such as ourselves. The course also encourages questions about why these specific films and works of literature, drama and film, attained the status of Australian 'classics'. We will consider the texts as art and as representations of culture at the time of first publication, staging or release, as well as over the longer term.