A study of Australia's most popular internationally-known comedian, Barry Humphries

本项目将在20世纪50年代至今的澳大利亚文化史背景下，对巴里·汉弗莱斯进行全面的传记研究。这项研究将阐明澳大利亚的文学、戏剧和文化政治，以及它与英国和美国的文化史以及自20世纪60年代以来全球娱乐文化的发展的交叉方式。这将填补对汉弗莱斯生平以及他对后帝国时代澳大利亚精神和澳大利亚文化产品全球出口的巨大贡献的理解空白。

This project will offer a fully researched biographical study of Barry Humphries in the context of Australian cultural history from the 1950s to the present. The study will illuminate Australian literature, theatre and cultural politics, and the way it intersects with both British and American cultural history and the development of global entertainment culture since the 1960s. It will fill a gap in the understanding of Humphries' life and his immense contribution to the Australian psyche and to the global export of Australian cultural products in the post-imperial era.