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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“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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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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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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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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“LGBTQI+ Jewish Identities on film”
Abrams, N., 16 Nov 2020.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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True Blue 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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Kosher Beefcakes and Kosher Cheesecakes: Jews in Porn - An Overview.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008, Jews and Sex.. 2008 ed. Five Leaves Publications, p. 147-168Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Holocaust on Film.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
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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Undoing the Cold War: Mad Magazine.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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The Cultural Significance of World War II.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.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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Paupers, peddlers and prayers: 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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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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A Profoundly Hegemonic Moment: De-mythologizing the Cold War New York Jewish Intellectuals.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Mar 2003, In: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 21, 3, p. 64-82Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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“My mother was trying to kill us with fat”: Food, culture, and sex in Jewish film.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Jews of Aberdeen and the Dee Street Shul.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.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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Jewish Americans in Film and Theater.
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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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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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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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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Back to the Past: American Cinema of the 1980s.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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North by Northwest and Memento.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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A Significant Journal of Opinion: Commentary Magazine 1945-1995.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2002.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Reel Kashrut: Jewish Food in Film.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2003, In: Jewish Quarterly. 50, 1, p. 53-55Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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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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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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Remote Jews.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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Where Neo-Conservatism Was Born.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 11 Dec 2006, In: History News Network.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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Steven Spielberg.
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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Structure is archaic, confused. See me!!
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 14 May 2004Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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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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Celebrating Freedom: American Judaism and the Cold War.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Gordon, A. (ed.), 1 Jan 2000, New Voices in Jewish Thought: Vol. III. 2000 ed. New Voices Publications, p. 5-23Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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American Jews.
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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An Unofficial Cultural Ambassador: Arthur Miller and the Cultural Cold War.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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The (M)orality of Murder: Jews, Food, and Steven Spielberg’s Munich (2005).
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.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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American Neo-Conservatism: its intellectual pedigree, main protagonists, current politics and prospects (with a wee bit on the history).
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2003.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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What makes a Jewish film Jewish?
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.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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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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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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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 Jewish Dream Factory: Jews and the American Film Industry.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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The Counter-Culture Strikes Back: American Films of the 1960s.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Introduction.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Hughes, J., 1 Jan 2001, Containing America: Cultural Production and Consumption in Fifties America.. 2001 ed. University of Birmingham Press, p. 1-11Research 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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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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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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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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Blaxploitation.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Paul Robeson.
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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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 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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‘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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The Banalities of Evil: Polanski, Kubrick, and the Reinvention of Horror
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Bradatan, C. (ed.) & Ungureanu, C. (ed.), 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
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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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From Madness to Dysentery: Mad’s Other New York Intellectuals.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.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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Comparing Memories: Holocaust Memorialization in the UK and USA.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2002.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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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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“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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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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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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Jews and Sex.
Abrams, N. D. (ed.) & Abrams, N. (ed.), 1 Jan 2008, 2008 ed. Five Leaves Publications.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Triple Exthnics.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004, In: Jewish Quarterly. 196, p. 27-30Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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The Pianist.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2003.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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Mother’s Old-Fashioned Gefilte Fish.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Hughes, J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, Containing America: Cultural Production and Consumption in Fifties America.. 2001 ed. University of Birmingham Press, p. 76-90Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Commentary Magazine 1945-1959: A Journal of Significant Thought and Opinion.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005, Vallentine Mitchell.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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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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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