Professor Nathan Abrams
Professor in Film

Affiliations
Contact info
Tel: + 44 (0)1248382196
Email: n.abrams@bangor.ac.uk
Twitter: @ndabrams; https://bangor.academia.edu/NathanAbrams
- 2016
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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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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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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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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
- 2015
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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
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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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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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Dr. Strangelove and the Final Solution’
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 21 Jul 2015.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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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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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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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
- 2014
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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
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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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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 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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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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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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'Dr. Strangelove’ and the Jewish question
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 13 Jul 2014.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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The Banalities of Evil: Polanski, Kubrick, and the Reinvention of Horror
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Bradatan, C. (Editor) & Ungureanu, C. (Editor), 27 Feb 2014, Religion in Contemporary European Cinema: The Postsecular Constellation. 2014 ed. Routledge, p. 145-164Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- 2013
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Digesting Woody: Food and Foodways in the Movies of Woody Allen
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Brook, V. (Editor) & Grinberg, M. (Editor), 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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Lolita’s Hidden Heart of Jewishness
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 11 Sept 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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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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The Kindertransp ort in Film
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 25 Jun 2013.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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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
- 2012
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Sub-epidermic Jewishness’: Stanley Kubrick’s Mythical Movie Jews
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 29 Sept 2012.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Grassroots Religion: Facebook and Offline Post-Denominational Judaism
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Baker, S., Brown, B. J., Gillespie, M. (Editor), Herbert, D. E. (Editor) & Greenhill, A. (Editor), 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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"A double set of glasses": Stanley Kubrick and the midrashic mode of interpretation
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Ba, S. M. (Editor) & Higbee, W. (Editor), 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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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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Reverse stereotypes: anti-anti-Semitic counter-communication in contemporary cinema
Abrams, N. D., 17 Apr 2012.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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An Unofficial Cultural Ambassador - Arthur Miller and the Cultural Cold War
Abrams, N. D., Romijn, P. (Editor), Scott-Smith, G. (Editor) & Segal, J. (Editor), 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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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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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
- 2011
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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. (Editor), Freitag, K. (Editor) & Gerhardt, C. W. (Editor), 1 Jan 2011, Religion in the USA. 2011 ed.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- 2010
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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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Spirituality in Online Environments: Judaism in Second Life and Facebook.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Baker, S., 29 Jun 2010.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Norman Podhoretz and Commentary Magazine: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons.
Abrams, N. D., 1 Jan 2010, Continuum.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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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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The Da Vinci Code Effect: Leo Strauss, the neoconservatives and the paranoid style.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Burns, T. (Editor) & Connelly, J. (Editor), 1 Jan 2010, The Legacy of Leo Strauss. 2010 ed. Imprint Academic, p. 235-252Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- 2009
- Published
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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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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From Jeremy to Jesus: the Jewish Male Body on Film, 1990 to the Present.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Fouz-Hernández, S. (Editor), 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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The Jew on the Loo: The Toilet in Jewish Popular Culture, Memory, and Imagination.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Gershenson, O. (Editor) & Penner, B. (Editor), 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 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
- 2008
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A Seminoma Story.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Scharper, D. (Editor) & Scharper, P. (Editor), 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