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
- 2014
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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. (Editor) & Campbell, H. A. (Editor), 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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'Dr. Strangelove’ and the Jewish question
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 13 Jul 2014.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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The Myth of Tyranny: Stanley Kubrick's Working Practices
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 24 Jul 2014.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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An Alternative New York Intellectual: Stanley Kubrick’s Cultural Critique
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Ljujic, T. (Editor), Kramer, P. (Editor) & Daniels, R. (Editor), 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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A Hidden Heart of Jewishness and Englishness: Stanley Kubrick
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Sept 2014, In: European Judaism. 47, 2, p. 69-76Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Secular Talmud: The Jewish Sensibility of Mad Magazine
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Sept 2014, In: Studies in American Humor (Special Issue: Mad Magazine and Its Legacies). 3, 30, p. 111-122Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Film, television, and new media studies
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Roth, L. (Editor) & Valman, N. (Editor), 15 Sept 2014, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures. 2014 ed. Routledge, p. 108-120Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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A Jewish American Monster: Stanley Kubrick, Anti-Semitism and Lolita (1962)
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 12 Nov 2014, In: Journal of American Studies. 49, 3, p. 1-16Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Muscles, Mimicry, Menschlikyat, and Madagascar: Jews, Sport, and Nature in US Cinema
Abrams, N. D., 15 Dec 2014, Muscling in on New Worlds : Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas. Rein, R. & Shenin, D. (eds.). 2014 ed. Brill, p. 121-142 (Jewish Latin America).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- 2015
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Hidden in Plain View: Jews and Jewishness in British Film and Television
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 15 Jan 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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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’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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Dr. Strangelove and the Final Solution’
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 21 Jul 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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The Future is Orange: Utopia and Dystopia in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 23 Jul 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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James Bond: A Jewish Fantasy
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 3 Sept 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Stanley Kubrick: Midrashic Movie Maker
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Burnette-Bletsch, R. (Editor), 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
- 2016
- Published
The Wandering Ape: Postscript to “Kubrick’s Double: Lolita’s Hidden Heart of Jewishness.”
Abrams, N. (Photographer), 2016Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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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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The Promised Land: Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary British Jewish Literature
Lawson, P., Gilbert, R. & Abrams, N., 1 Apr 2016, In: Journal of European Popular Culture. 7, 1, p. 3-8Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › 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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Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture
Abrams, N. (Editor), Aug 2016, Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. 284 p. (Cultural Expressions of World War II)Research output: Book/Report › Book › 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
- 2017
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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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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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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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Emilio D’Alessandro with Filippo Ulivieri, Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years at His Side. Translated by Simon Marsh. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2016
Abrams, N., 4 Dec 2017, In: Cinergie. 12, p. 315-316Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
- 2018
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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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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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English Centre vs. Celtic Periphery: The Chief Rabbi, Shechita and Dundee, 1883
Abrams, N., Jun 2018, In: Jewish Culture and History. 19, 2, p. 154-168Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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Introduction: Jews in the Celtic Lands
Parry-Jones, C. & Abrams, N., Jun 2018, In: Jewish Culture and History. 19, 2, p. 119-123Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › 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
- 2019
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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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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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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
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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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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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Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film
Kolker, R. & Abrams, N., 25 Jul 2019, New York: Oxford University Press USA. 256 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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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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The Interface Between British Contemporary Black and Jewish Cultures
Abrams, N. (Guest editor) & Brauner, D. (Guest editor), Aug 2019, In: Jewish Culture and History. 20, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
- 2020
- Published
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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Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs
Abrams, N., 27 Apr 2020, In: Jewish Historical Studies. 51, 1, p. 355-356Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Kubrick and The Paranoid Style: Antisemitism, Conspiracy Theories, and The Shining
Abrams, N., 1 Jul 2020, In: Senses of Cinema. 95Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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“LGBTQI+ Jewish Identities on film”
Abrams, N., 16 Nov 2020.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- 2021
- Unpublished
Kubrick & Race: Some Thoughts
Abrams, N., 2021, (Unpublished).Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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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
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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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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Kubrick and Psychoanalysis
Abrams, N. & Hunter, I. Q., 14 Jan 2021, The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick. Abrams, N. & Hunter, I. (eds.). New York: BloomsburyResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review