Professor Nathan Abrams
Professor in Film
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Contact info
Tel: + 44 (0)1248382196
Email: n.abrams@bangor.ac.uk
Twitter: @ndabrams; https://bangor.academia.edu/NathanAbrams
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“LGBTQI+ Jewish Identities on film”
Abrams, N., 16 Nov 2020.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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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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Cinema Industry.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Abramson, G. (ed.), 1 Jan 2004, Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture. 2004 ed. RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Introduction
Abrams, N. & Frame, G., 21 Oct 2021, New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy. Abrams, N. & Frame, G. (eds.). 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, IQ. (eds.). New York: BloomsburyResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Neoconservatism - the end of an ideology?
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Mental Health and the Moving Image.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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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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Film, television, and new media studies
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Roth, L. (ed.) & Valman, N. (ed.), 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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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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Focus on American Gothic.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2002.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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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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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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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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The Neocons: What Do We Really Know About Them?
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Consistently Controversial: Commentary Magazine, 1945 to the Present.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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Remote Jews.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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Studying Film.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Bell, I. & Udris, J., 1 Jan 2001, Hodder Arnold.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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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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The Naughties: American Cinema of the New Millennium.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Caledonian Jews: A Study of Seven Small Communities in Scotland
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2009, McFarland & Co.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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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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‘Taming Memory’: Themeing America’s East Coast Holocaust Memorials.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Oettinger, D., 1 Oct 2000, In: 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies. 6, p. OnlineResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Falling Down.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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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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“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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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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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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Kubrick & Race: Some Thoughts
Abrams, N., 2021, (Unpublished).Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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Sex and Obscenity in Commentary Magazine.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Remind me why I’m a “commando” lecturer.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 3 Oct 2003Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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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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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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"I don’t roll on Shabbos!", American Judaism on Film, 1990 to the present.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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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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Celtic Jews: The Small Jewish Communities of Scotland and North Wales.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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"I'll have whatever she’s having”: Jewish Food on Film.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Bowers, A. (ed.), 1 Jan 2004, Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film. 2004 ed. Routledge, p. 87-100Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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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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Epics: The Bible and Beyond.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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“A Profoundly Hegemonic Moment”: De-Mythologizing the Cold War New York Jewish Intellectuals.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Goffman, E. (ed.) & Morris, D. (ed.), 1 Jan 2008, The New York Intellectuals and Beyond: Exploring Liberal Humanism, Jewish Identity, and the American Protestant Tradition. 2008 ed. Purdue University Press, p. 17-34Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Designer Ethnicity – The New Jew Crew: Urban Jewish Ethnicity in New York.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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From Madness to Dysentery: Mad's Other New York Intellectuals.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Dec 2003, In: Journal of American Studies. 37, 3, p. 435-451Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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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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Focus on Science Fiction.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2003.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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"A double set of glasses": Stanley Kubrick and the midrashic mode of interpretation
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Ba, S. M. (ed.) & Higbee, W. (ed.), 28 Jun 2012, De-Westernizing Film Studies. 2012 ed. Routledge, p. 141-151Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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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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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 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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Alien Legacies: The Evolution of the Franchise
Abrams, N. (ed.) & Frame, G. (ed.), 6 Apr 2023, Oxford: OUP. 320 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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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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Grassroots Religion: Facebook and Offline Post-Denominational Judaism
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Baker, S., Brown, B. J., Gillespie, M. (ed.), Herbert, D. E. (ed.) & Greenhill, A. (ed.), 1 Sept 2012, Social Media Religion and Spirituality. 2012 ed. Walter de Gruyter & Co, p. 143-164Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Designer Ethnicity.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.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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The Jews of Aberdeen: a revolving door community since 1893 and its antecedents.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007, In: Northern Scotland. 27, p. 147-168Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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Commentary.
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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“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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Introduction
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Cohen, N., 1 Mar 2013, In: Jewish Film and New Media: an International Journal. 1, 1, p. 1-19Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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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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Mental Health and the Moving Image.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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We love our students-they're so appealing.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 23 Jan 2004Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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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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A Significant Journal of Jewish Opinion?: The Jewishness of Commentary Magazine.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2003, In: American Jewish Archives Journal. LV, 1, p. 35-62Research 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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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 Da Vinci Code, Jews and the Neocons.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Reel Jews.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.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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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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“More than one million mothers know it’s the REAL thing”: The Rosenbergs, Jell-O, Old-Fashioned Gefilte Fish, and 1950s America.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Lebesco, K. (ed.) & Naccarato, P. (ed.), 1 Jan 2008, Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning. 2008 ed. State University of New York Press, p. 79-103Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Reds Are Coming! American Films of the 1950s.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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
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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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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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The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick
Abrams, N. (ed.) & Hunter, I. Q. (ed.), 14 Jan 2021, New York: Bloomsbury. 352 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-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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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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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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A Significant Journal of Jewish Opinion? Commentary Magazine.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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A Seminoma Story.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Scharper, D. (ed.) & Scharper, P. (ed.), 1 Jan 2008, Reading Lips and other ways to overcome a disability. 2008 ed. Apprentice House, p. 79-84Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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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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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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The U.S. and the World after 9/11: Munich and Hostel.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2009.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in contemporary cinema
Abrams, N. D., 1 Jan 2012, I.B.Tauris.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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An Unofficial Cultural Ambassador - Arthur Miller and the Cultural Cold War
Abrams, N. D., Romijn, P. (ed.), Scott-Smith, G. (ed.) & Segal, J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2012, Divided Dreamworlds? : The Cultural Cold War in East and West. 2012 ed. Amsterdam University Press, p. 13-32Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Focus on Bergman.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2002.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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Re-presenting the Past: History on Film.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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‘America is home’: Commentary Magazine and the Refocusing of the Community of Memory, 1945-60
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jun 2000, In: Jewish Culture and History. 3, 1, p. 45-74Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review