Professor Nathan Abrams

Professor in Film

Contact info

Tel: + 44 (0)1248382196 
Email: n.abrams@bangor.ac.uk
Twitter: @ndabrams; https://bangor.academia.edu/NathanAbrams

  1. Chapter › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    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 Publishing

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  3. Published

    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. 108-120

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  4. Published

    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. 15-29

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  5. Published

    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. 143-164

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  6. Published

    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 proceedingChapter

  7. Published

    Introduction.

    Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008, Jews and Sex.. 2008 ed. Five Leaves Publications, p. 9-16

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  8. Published

    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. 1-11

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  9. Published

    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 Publishing

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  10. Published

    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 Publishing

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  11. Published

    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 proceedingChapter

  12. Published

    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. 147-168

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  13. Published

    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 Press

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  14. Published

    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. 76-90

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  15. Published

    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 proceedingChapter

  16. Published

    Norman Podhoretz.

    Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Berenbaum, M. (ed.) & Skolnik, F. (ed.), 1 Jan 2007, Encyclopedia Judaica: 2nd Edition. 2007 ed. Thomson & Gale

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  17. Published

    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 Publishing

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  18. Published

    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 proceedingChapter

  19. Published

    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. 665-675

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  20. Published

    Steven Spielberg.

    Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Abramson, G. (ed.), 1 Jan 2004, Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture. 2004 ed. Routledge

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  21. Published

    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 proceedingChapter

  22. Published

    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. 145-164

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  23. Published

    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. 235-252

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  24. Published

    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. 218-226

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  25. Published

    ‘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-Hill

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  26. Published

    “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. 17-34

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  27. Published

    “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. 9-37

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  28. Published

    “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. 79-103

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  29. Published

    “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 proceedingChapter

  30. Special issue › Research › Peer-reviewed
  31. Published

    English Centre vs. Celtic Periphery: The Chief Rabbi, Shechita and Dundee, 1883

    Abrams, N., Jun 2018, In: Jewish Culture and History. 19, 2, p. 154-168

    Research output: Contribution to journalSpecial issuepeer-review

  32. Published

    Introduction: Jews in the Celtic Lands

    Parry-Jones, C. & Abrams, N., Jun 2018, In: Jewish Culture and History. 19, 2, p. 119-123

    Research output: Contribution to journalSpecial issuepeer-review

  33. Published

    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, 3

    Research output: Contribution to journalSpecial issuepeer-review

  34. Book/Film/Article review › Research › Peer-reviewed
  35. Published

    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. 315-316

    Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article reviewpeer-review

  36. Published

    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. 191-193

    Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article reviewpeer-review

  37. Published

    Review: Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker

    Abrams, N., 2021, In: Jewish Historical Studies. 52, 1, p. 297-301

    Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article reviewpeer-review

  38. Book/Film/Article review › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  39. Published

    Review of 'Wartski: The First Hundred and Fifty Years' by Geoffrey C. Munn

    Abrams, N., May 2017, In: Jewish Historical Studies. 48, 1, p. 232-233

    Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

  40. Published

    Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs

    Abrams, N., 27 Apr 2020, In: Jewish Historical Studies. 51, 1, p. 355-356

    Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

  41. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  42. Published

    A Hidden Heart of Jewishness and Englishness: Stanley Kubrick

    Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Sept 2014, In: European Judaism. 47, 2, p. 69-76

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  43. Published

    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. 1-16

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  44. Published

    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. 64-82

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  45. Published

    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. 111-122

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  46. Published

    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. 35-62

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  47. Published

    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. 48-59

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  48. Published

    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. 283-296

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  49. Published

    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 journalArticlepeer-review

  50. Published

    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. 435-451

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  51. Published

    Heartless Violence and Hopeless Schmucks.

    Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007, In: Jewish Quarterly. 205, p. 62-66

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  52. Published

    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. 53-68

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  53. Published

    Introduction

    Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Cohen, N., 1 Mar 2013, In: Jewish Film and New Media: an International Journal. 1, 1, p. 1-19

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  54. Published

    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 journalArticlepeer-review

  55. Published

    Introduction: ‘Jews in British cinema’

    Abrams, N., 2012, In: Journal of European Popular Culture. 3, 2, p. 111-115

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review