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
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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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“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 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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“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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“My mother was trying to kill us with fat”: Food, culture, and sex in Jewish film.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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“LGBTQI+ Jewish Identities on film”
Abrams, N., 16 Nov 2020.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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“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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“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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“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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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
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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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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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What makes a Jewish film Jewish?
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.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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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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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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Undoing the Cold War: Mad Magazine.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.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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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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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 “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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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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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 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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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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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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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 Pianist.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2003.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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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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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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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 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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The Kindertransp ort in Film
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 25 Jun 2013.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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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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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 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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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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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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The Holocaust on Film.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.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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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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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 Da Vinci Code Effect: Leo Strauss, the Neocons and the Paranoid Style.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.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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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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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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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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The (Un)natural Jew.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2010.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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Stanley Kubrick: Auteur, Genius, Jew.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Stanley Kubrick, the Holocaust and History.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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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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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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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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Sex and Obscenity in Commentary Magazine.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Remote Jews.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.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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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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Remembering the Rosenbergs: America, Jews and Anti-Semitism.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2003.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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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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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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Reel Jews.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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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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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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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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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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North by Northwest and Memento.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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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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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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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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Neoconservatism - the end of an ideology?
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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