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
- 2024
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Law and War in Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957)
Abrams, N. & Lipiner, M., 5 Nov 2024, Law and War in Popular Culture. Machura, S. (ed.). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 71-92 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The only Jew in the village
Abrams, N., 23 Oct 2024, MonologAYE. Aberystwyth: Atebol, 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Terminator at 40: James Cameron’s dark vision is more relevant than ever
Abrams, N., 11 Oct 2024, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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The only Jew in the village
Abrams, N. (Other), 11 Oct 2024Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
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“a sentimental post card to his forefathers?”: Stanley Kubrick’s Aryan Papers (1991-1993)
Abrams, N., Oct 2024, Kubrick’s Mitteleuropa: The Central European Imaginary in the films of Stanley Kubrick . Abrams, N. & Szaniawski, J. (eds.). Berghahn Books, p. 184-212Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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MAD's Jewish America
Abrams, N., 3 Sept 2024, The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America's Brain! A Library of America Special Publication. Mikics, D. (ed.). New York: Library of America, p. 108-116Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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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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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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Kubrick: An Odyssey
Kolker, R. P. & Abrams, N., 18 Jan 2024, London: Faber & Faber. 656 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
- 2023
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British and Irish newspapers implicitly support single-use masks over reusable face coverings
Auge, A., Tenbrink, T., Spear, M. & Abrams, N., Oct 2023, In: Frontiers in Communication. 8, 15 p., 1256349.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › 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 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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Alien Legacies: The Evolution of the Franchise
Abrams, N. (Editor) & Frame, G. (Editor), 6 Apr 2023, Oxford: OUP. 320 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Introduction
Abrams, N., 6 Apr 2023, Alien Legacies: The Evolution of the Franchise. Oxford: OUP, 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Afterword
Abrams, N., 2 Jan 2023, Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange. Melia, M. & Orgill, G. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan Publishing, p. 319-322 (Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
- 2022
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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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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
- 2021
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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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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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New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy
Abrams, N. (Editor) & Frame, G. (Editor), 21 Oct 2021, New York: Bloomsbury.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › 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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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
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The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick
Abrams, N. (Editor) & Hunter, I. Q. (Editor), 14 Jan 2021, New York: Bloomsbury. 352 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review
- 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
- 2020
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“LGBTQI+ Jewish Identities on film”
Abrams, N., 16 Nov 2020.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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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'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
- 2019
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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‘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
- 2018
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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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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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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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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
- 2017
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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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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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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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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
- 2016
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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