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 Chapter › Research › Not peer-reviewed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, 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. Chapter › Research › Peer-reviewed
  30. Published

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    Abrams, N., 29 Nov 2018, Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies. Gabbard, K. (ed.). Oxford University Press USA

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  31. Published

    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 proceedingChapterpeer-review

  32. Published

    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 proceedingChapterpeer-review

  33. Published

    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 proceedingChapterpeer-review

  34. Published

    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. 87-97

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  35. Published

    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 proceedingChapterpeer-review

  36. Published

    Introduction

    Abrams, N., 6 Apr 2023, Alien Legacies: The Evolution of the Franchise. Oxford: OUP, 19 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  37. Published

    Introduction

    Abrams, N. & Frame, G., 21 Oct 2021, New Wave, New Hollywood:  Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy. Abrams, N. & Frame, G. (eds.). New York: Bloomsbury

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  38. Published

    Introduction

    Abrams, N. & Hunter, I. Q., 14 Jan 2021, The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick. New York: Bloomsbury

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  39. Published

    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 proceedingChapterpeer-review

  40. Published

    Kubrick and Childhood

    Abrams, N., 14 Jan 2021, The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick. New York: Bloomsbury

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  41. Published

    Kubrick and Psychoanalysis

    Abrams, N. & Hunter, I. Q., 14 Jan 2021, The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick. Abrams, N. & Hunter, IQ. (eds.). New York: Bloomsbury

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  42. Published

    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 proceedingChapterpeer-review

  43. Published

    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. 159-178

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  44. Published

    “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 Methuen

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  45. Other chapter contribution › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  46. Published

    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 proceedingOther chapter contribution

  47. Paper › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  48. Published

    "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 conferencePaper

  49. Published

    'Dr. Strangelove’ and the Jewish question

    Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 13 Jul 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  50. Published

    A Significant Journal of Jewish Opinion? Commentary Magazine.

    Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  51. Published

    A Significant Journal of Opinion: Commentary Magazine 1945-1995.

    Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  52. Published

    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 conferencePaper

  53. Published

    American Jews and (Neo)-Conservatism: Exploding a Few Myths.

    Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  54. Published