Professor Nathan Abrams
Professor in Film
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Tel: + 44 (0)1248382196
Email: n.abrams@bangor.ac.uk
Twitter: @ndabrams; https://bangor.academia.edu/NathanAbrams
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An Alternative New York Intellectual: Stanley Kubrick’s Cultural Critique
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Ljujic, T. (ed.), Kramer, P. (ed.) & Daniels, R. (ed.), 15 Aug 2014, Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives. 2014 ed. Black Dog, p. 62-81Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Remote Jews: Uncovering the lost Jewish communities of Scotland.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Dr. Strangelove and the Final Solution’
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 21 Jul 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Porn Again Jews: Jewish Involvement in the Adult Film Industry.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Hidden: Jewish film in the United Kingdom, past and present.
Abrams, N. D., 1 Nov 2010, In: Journal of European Popular Culture. 1, 1, p. 53-68Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Jews & Sex in the Movies but Were Too Afraid to Ask.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Norman Podhoretz.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Berenbaum, M. (ed.) & Skolnik, F. (ed.), 1 Jan 2007, Encyclopedia Judaica: 2nd Edition. 2007 ed. Thomson & GaleResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Arthur Miller.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Kerberl, S. (ed.), 1 Jan 2003, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. 2003 ed. Fitzroy Dearborn PublishersResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Revolving Door Communities: Aberdeen and the Other Small Jewish Communities of Scotland.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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“My religion is American”: A Midrash on Judaism in American Films, 1990 to the Present
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Cortiel, J. (ed.), Freitag, K. (ed.) & Gerhardt, C. W. (ed.), 1 Jan 2011, Religion in the USA. 2011 ed.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Intellectual Life.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Schlup, L. (ed.) & Ryan, J. G. (ed.), 1 Jan 2006, Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. 2006 ed. ME Sharpe, Inc.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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New Jews and Reel Food: The Changing Representations of Jews (and what they eat) on Film.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Pointless Tedium - Don't You Just Love It?
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 28 May 2004Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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Reel Jews? A Look at Quirky Jews on Screen.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Stanley Kubrick: Midrashic Movie Maker
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Burnette-Bletsch, R. (ed.), 15 Oct 2015, The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film. 2015 ed. Walter De Gruyter, p. 665-675Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The (Un)natural Jew.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2010.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Celtic Jews: The Small Jewish Communities of Scotland and North Wales.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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The Da Vinci Code Effect: Leo Strauss, the Neocons and the Paranoid Style.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Contemporary American Society in Film: David Fincher’s Fight Club.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Stanley Kubrick’s “agnostic prayer”: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 5 Jul 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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“I’ll have whatever she’s having”: Food and sex on Film.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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An Unofficial Cultural Ambassador: Arthur Miller and the Cultural Cold War.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 2 Aug 2009.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Shouting at Power: Norman Podhoretz and American Foreign Policy.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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The Jew on the Loo: The Toilet in Jewish Popular Culture, Memory, and Imagination.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Gershenson, O. (ed.) & Penner, B. (ed.), 1 Jan 2009, Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender. 2009 ed. Temple University Press, p. 218-226Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Smaller Jewish Communities in Scotland and Wales.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Digesting Woody: Food and Foodways in the Movies of Woody Allen
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Brook, V. (ed.) & Grinberg, M. (ed.), 3 Dec 2013, Woody on rye: Jewishness in the films and plays of Woody Allen. 2013 ed. p. 215-234Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Becoming a Macho Mensch: Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus and 1950s Jewish Masculinity
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 30 Mar 2015, In: Adaptation: The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies. 8, 3, p. 283-296Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Rise and Fall of the Neocons.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Falling Down.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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It's time to rock the lecture boat.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 17 Jan 2003Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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Jews & Sex: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Jews & Sex but Were Too Afraid to Ask.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Are You Still You?: Memory, Identity, and Self-Positioning in Total Recall.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Dec 2003, In: Film and Philosophy. 7, p. 48-59Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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From Jesus to Jeremy: The Jewish Male Body on Screen, 1990 to the Present.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Undoing the Cold War: Mad Magazine.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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History as Necessity in Everydayness and the Event
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 29 Aug 2013.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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“My mother was trying to kill us with fat”: Food, culture, and sex in Jewish film.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Introduction.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008, Jews and Sex.. 2008 ed. Five Leaves Publications, p. 9-16Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Locating the Pixelated Jew: A Multi-Modal Method for Exploring Judaism in The Shivah
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Masso, I. C., Grieve, G. P. (ed.) & Campbell, H. A. (ed.), 1 Jun 2014, Playing with Religion in Digital Games. 2014 ed. Indiana University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Movie Brat Generation: American Cinema of the 1970s.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Kubrick’s Double: Lolita’s Hidden Heart of Jewishness
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 8 Sept 2013.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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American Jews and (Neo)-Conservatism: Exploding a Few Myths.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Containing America: Cultural Production and Consumption in Fifties America.
Abrams, N. D. (ed.), Abrams, N. (ed.) & Hughes, J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, 2001 ed. University of Birmingham Press.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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The Jewish Dream Factory: Jews and the American Film Industry.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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What are you hiding in that brown paper bag?
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Apr 2006Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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Designer Ethnicity.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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From Jeremy to Jesus: the Jewish Male Body on Film, 1990 to the Present.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Fouz-Hernández, S. (ed.), 1 Jan 2009, Mysterious Skin: The Male Body in Contemporary Cinema. 2009 ed. I B Tauris & Co, p. 15-29Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Jute, Journalism, Jam and Jews: the Anomalous Survival of the Dundee Hebrew Congregation
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 May 2012, In: Northern Scotland. 3, 1, p. 86-97Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Jews in Scotland: Myth and Reality.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Kaplan, H., 1 Jan 2006, In: History Scotland. 6, 4, p. 38-43Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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All the rest is Commentary: A look at the Jewish press in America.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Jewish Americans: An Overview.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Kurian, G. (ed.), Orvell, M. (ed.), Butler, J. (ed.) & Mechling, J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, Encyclopedia of American Studies. 2001 ed. Grolier PublishingResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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‘I’m Shomer Shabbos!’ Jewish Masculinity and Judaism in Anglo-American Film, 1990 to the Present.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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What makes a Jewish Film Jewish?
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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‘Homegrown heroes’: Rap Music, Resistance, and Technology.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Gray-Rosendale, L. (ed.), 1 Jan 2007, Pop Perspectives: Readings to Critique Contemporary Culture. 2007 ed. McGraw-HillResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Film and the Construction of Identity.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Kurian, G. (ed.), Orvell, M. (ed.), Butler, J. (ed.) & Mechling, J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, Encyclopedia of American Studies. 2001 ed. Grolier PublishingResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Migrations, Screen Identities and the European Jewish Diasporas.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Heartless Violence and Hopeless Schmucks.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007, In: Jewish Quarterly. 205, p. 62-66Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Lolita’s Hidden Heart of Jewishness
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 11 Sept 2013.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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The Da Vinci Code Effect: Leo Strauss, the neoconservatives and the paranoid style.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Burns, T. (ed.) & Connelly, J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2010, The Legacy of Leo Strauss. 2010 ed. Imprint Academic, p. 235-252Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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“You need a lot of balls”: British Jewish Film, 1990 to the present.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Jews, American Politics, the Elections and Neo-Cons.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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“America is Home”: Commentary Magazine and the Refocusing of the Community of Memory, 1945-1960.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Friedman, L. (ed.), 1 Jan 2005, Commentary in American Life. 2005 ed. Temple University Press, p. 9-37Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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It's a mad world.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 28 Feb 2000Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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Blaxploitation.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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The Kindertransp ort in Film
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 25 Jun 2013.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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The “sub-epidermic” Shoah: Barton Fink, the Migration of the Holocaust, and Contemporary Cinema
Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2013, In: Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities. 32, 2, p. 6-19Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Kubrick’s Double: Lolita’s Hidden Heart of Jewishness
Abrams, N., 1 Apr 2016, In: Cinema Journal. 55, 3, p. 17 39 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Review of 'Wartski: The First Hundred and Fifty Years' by Geoffrey C. Munn
Abrams, N., May 2017, In: Jewish Historical Studies. 48, 1, p. 232-233Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Review: Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker
Abrams, N., 2021, In: Jewish Historical Studies. 52, 1, p. 297-301Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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‘Jewish Cricket’: Black-Jewish Relations in Wondrous Oblivion (2003)
Abrams, N., 2019, In: Jewish Culture and History. 20, 3, p. 234-247Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Introduction
Abrams, N. & Hunter, I. Q., 14 Jan 2021, The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick. New York: BloomsburyResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual
Abrams, N., 19 Apr 2018, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 296 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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The Wandering Ape: Postscript to “Kubrick’s Double: Lolita’s Hidden Heart of Jewishness.”
Abrams, N., 2016Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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The (M)orality of Murder: Jews, Food, and Steven Spielberg’s Munich
Abrams, N. & Owen, G., 27 Jan 2017, A Companion to Steven Spielberg. Morris, N. (ed.). 2015 ed. Blackwell, p. 336-352 (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Famous Jewish Sports Legends
Abrams, N., 5 Jul 2019, Jewish Lives Project: Sport. London: Jewish Museum London, p. 17-22 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution
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Kubrick and Psychoanalysis
Abrams, N. & Hunter, I. Q., 14 Jan 2021, The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick. Abrams, N. & Hunter, IQ. (eds.). New York: BloomsburyResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Kubrick's Cube: Stanley Kubrick, Judaism, and His Jewish Heirs
Abrams, N., 20 Feb 2020, After Kubrick: A Filmmaker’s Legacy. Szaniawski, J. (ed.). New York: Bloomsbury, 24 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Crypto-Wiseaulogy: Uncovering Stanley Kubrick, Jewishness, and Judaism in The Room
Abrams, N., Oct 2022, You are Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!: This Year's Work on The Room, The Worst Movie Ever Made. Rosen, A. (ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, p. 87-97Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Review of Movies and Midrash: Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation by Wendy I. Zierler
Abrams, N., 16 Apr 2019, In: Jewish Historical Studies. 50, 1, p. 191-193Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Remotely Jewish: Scotland's Seven Small Jewish Communities
Abrams, N., Mar 2018, Two Hundred Years of Scottish Jewry. Collins, K., Newman, A. & Wasserstein, B. (eds.). Glasgow: Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, p. 159-178Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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What was HAL? IBM, Jewishness, and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Abrams, N., 2017, In: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 37, 3, p. 416-435Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Introduction: ‘Jews in British cinema’
Abrams, N., 2012, In: Journal of European Popular Culture. 3, 2, p. 111-115Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy
Abrams, N. (ed.) & Frame, G. (ed.), 21 Oct 2021, New York: Bloomsbury.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review
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Kubrick & Race: Some Thoughts
Abrams, N., 2021, (Unpublished).Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Rites of Passage: Jewish Representations of Children and Childhood in Contemporary Cinema
Abrams, N., 2021, No small matter: features of Jewish Childhood. Helman, A. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford: OUP, Vol. 32. (Studies in Contemporary Jewry).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Introduction: The Interface Between British Contemporary Black and Jewish Cultures
Abrams, N. & Brauner, D., Aug 2019, In: Jewish Culture and History. 20, 3, p. 199-203 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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“It was f***ing biblical, mate”: The Maturing of British Television Drama
Abrams, N., 22 Apr 2021, A Companion to British-Jewish Theatre since the 1950s. Malkin, J., Voigts, E. & Ablett, S. J. (eds.). New York: Bloomsbury MethuenResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Abrams, N., 29 Nov 2018, Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies. Gabbard, K. (ed.). Oxford University Press USAResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Introduction
Abrams, N., 30 Apr 2016, Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture. Abrams, N. & Lassner, P. (eds.). Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, p. 3-28 (Cultural Expressions of World War II).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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British Jews are using Facebook to create new “pop-up” communities
Abrams, N., 17 Aug 2016Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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Circumcised Cinema: Representing Jewishness on Film through Circumcision
Abrams, N., 2022, Thought-Sign-Symbol : Cross-Cultural Representations of Religion. Kopytowska, M., Gałkowski, A. & Leone, M. (eds.). Lodz Studies in Language ed. Berlin: Peter Lang, Vol. 71. p. 447-464 464 p. (Lodz Studies in Language; vol. 71).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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“a monstrously difficult subject”: Stanley Kubrick’s Aryan Papers (1991-1993)
Abrams, N., Jul 2023, In: Journal of Jewish Identities. 16, 1-2, p. 79-98Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Appropriation and Innovation: Facebook, Grassroots Jews and Offline Post-Denominational Judaism
Abrams, N., 18 May 2015, Digital Judaism: Jewish Negotiations with Digital Media and Culture. Routledge, p. 40 56 p. (Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Stanley Kubrick redefined: recent research challenges myths to reveal the man behind the legend
Abrams, N., 4 Mar 2024, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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2001: A Space Odyssey still leaves an indelible mark on our culture 55 years on
Abrams, N., 10 Jul 2023, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Curb Your Enthusiasm bows out after 24 years – or does it?
Abrams, N., 16 Apr 2024, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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The Interface Between British Contemporary Black and Jewish Cultures
Abrams, N. (Guest ed.) & Brauner, D. (Guest ed.), Aug 2019, In: Jewish Culture and History. 20, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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Cops and Robbers: Jewish Policemen and Gangsters on Contemporary British TV
Abrams, N., 27 May 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Kubrick’s Jewesses Onscreen and Offscreen
Abrams, N., Dec 2021, In: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 39, 3, p. 210-242Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Kubrick and Childhood
Abrams, N., 14 Jan 2021, The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick. New York: BloomsburyResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Jews in Contemporary Cinema and Television
Abrams, N., 18 Apr 2019, The New Jewish American Literary Studies . Aarons, V. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 216-231 (Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review