Overview
In addition to being a Professor in Film at Bangor University, I am also the lead director for the Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies. I co-convene the British Jewish Contemporary Cultures network. I lecture, write and broadcast widely (in English and Welsh) on British and American popular culture, history film and intellectual culture. I co-founded Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal.
My most recent books are Kubrick: Odyssey (with Robert Kolker; Faber & Faber/Pegasus, 2024); Alien Legacies: The Evolution of the Franchise (edited with Greg Frame; forthcoming from Oxford University Press); Eyes Wide Shut: Behind Stanley Kubrick's Masterpiece (edited with Georgina Orgill; Liverpool University Press, 2023); New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy (edited with Greg Frame, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (edited with I.Q. Hunter, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (with Robert Kolker, Oxford University Press, 2019), Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (Rutgers University Press, 2018), Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture (Northwestern University Press, 2016), and The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema (IB Tauris; Rutgers University Press, 2012).
I am also interested in issues of sustainability and the environment, exploring the problem of single-use plastic pollution and its solution.
Additional Contact Information
Tel: + 44 (0)1248382196
Email: n.abrams@bangor.ac.uk
Twitter: @ndabrams; https://bangor.academia.edu/NathanAbrams
Teaching and Supervision
I would be interested in supervising postgraduates in any of the areas in which I teach and research. Current and previous topics include David Cronenberg's Jewishness; The Iraq War on Film; Stanley Kubrick as a musician; Stanley Kubrick and the Holocaust; Steven Spielberg's Jewishness; DreamWorks Animation; Childhood in the Films of Stanley Kubrick; Jewish Women in 21st-century sitcoms; The Planet of Apes as History; Stereotypes of Wales and the Welsh on Film; The Jews of Bangor and Llandudno; The Jewish Diaspora in Wales; Jews in Italian Cinema; and Washing and Clotheslines on Film.
I teach at the Master's level in Film Studies. I am also responsible for the following undergraduate modules:
- Stanley Kubrick: Producer and Director
- Advanced Film History: America
- Film Language
- Film History
Research Interests
I have written widely on transatlantic Jewish film, history, politics and popular culture with specific reference to the United States and the United Kingdom. My current research falls into three key areas:
- Jews, Jewishness and Judaism in Popular Culture, 1990–present -- recent and changing representations of Jewishness as ethnicity and religion in contemporary cinema and other forms of popular culture.
- Public Intellectuals and American Culture -- exploring, theorising and widening the notion of the function of the intellectual in post-war America, with a specific focus on Norman Podhoretz, neoconservatives, Commentary magazine, the New York Intellectuals, Arthur Miller and Stanley Kubrick.
- Belonging and Diasporas in Europe -- Jewish Diasporic communities in Europe with a particular emphasis on the UK.
- Sustainability and the Environment -- research into messaging, representations, semiotics and solving the issue of single-use plastic pollution with a focus on disposable masks and energy drinks.
I am co-coordinator of the British Jewish Contemporary Cultures Network
Postgraduate Project Opportunities
American Studies and History
Film Studies
Film History
Jewish Studies and History
Stanley Kubrick
Celtic Jewish Studies
British Jewish History
Sustainability and the Environment
Publications
2024
- PublishedCurb Your Enthusiasm bows out after 24 years – or does it?
Abrams, N., 16 Apr 2024, The Conversation.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article - PublishedKubrick: An Odyssey
Kolker, R. P. & Abrams, N., 18 Jan 2024, London: Faber & Faber. 656 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - Accepted/In pressMAD's Jewish America
Abrams, N., 3 Sept 2024, The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America's Brain! A Library of America Special Publication. Mikics, D. (ed.). New York: Library of America, p. 108-116
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedStanley 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
2023
- Published2001: A Space Odyssey still leaves an indelible mark on our culture 55 years on
Abrams, N., 10 Jul 2023, The Conversation.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article - PublishedAfterword
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 - PublishedAlien Legacies: The Evolution of the Franchise
Abrams, N. (ed.) & Frame, G. (ed.), 6 Apr 2023, Oxford: OUP. 320 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review - PublishedBritish 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 journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedIntroduction
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 - Published“a monstrously difficult subject”: Stanley Kubrick’s Aryan Papers (1991-1993)
Abrams, N., Jul 2023, In: Journal of Jewish Identities. 16, 1-2, p. 79-98
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2022
- PublishedCircumcised 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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - PublishedCrypto-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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - In preparation“a sentimental post card to his forefathers?”: Stanley Kubrick’s Aryan Papers (1991-1993)
Abrams, N., Oct 2024, Kubrick’s Mitteleuropa: The Central European Imaginary in the films of Stanley Kubrick . Abrams, N. & Szaniawski, J. (eds.). Berghahn Books, p. 184-212
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2021
- PublishedIntroduction
Abrams, N. & Hunter, I. Q., 14 Jan 2021, The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick. New York: Bloomsbury
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - PublishedIntroduction
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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - UnpublishedKubrick & Race: Some Thoughts
Abrams, N., 2021, (Unpublished).
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedKubrick and Childhood
Abrams, N., 14 Jan 2021, The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick. New York: Bloomsbury
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - PublishedKubrick 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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - PublishedKubrick’s Jewesses Onscreen and Offscreen
Abrams, N., Dec 2021, In: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 39, 3, p. 210-242
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedNew 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 - PublishedReview: Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker
Abrams, N., 2021, In: Jewish Historical Studies. 52, 1, p. 297-301
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review - PublishedRites 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 - PublishedThe 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 - 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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2020
- PublishedKubrick and The Paranoid Style: Antisemitism, Conspiracy Theories, and The Shining
Abrams, N., 1 Jul 2020, In: Senses of Cinema. 95
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article - PublishedKubrick'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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - PublishedThrough a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs
Abrams, N., 27 Apr 2020, In: Jewish Historical Studies. 51, 1, p. 355-356
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review - Published“LGBTQI+ Jewish Identities on film”
Abrams, N., 16 Nov 2020.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2019
- PublishedCops and Robbers: Jewish Policemen and Gangsters on Contemporary British TV
Abrams, N., 27 May 2019.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedEyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film
Kolker, R. & Abrams, N., 25 Jul 2019, New York: Oxford University Press USA. 256 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review - PublishedFamous 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 proceeding › Other chapter contribution - PublishedIntroduction: 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 - PublishedJews 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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - PublishedReview 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 journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review - PublishedThe 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 journal › Special issue › peer-review - Published‘Jewish Cricket’: Black-Jewish Relations in Wondrous Oblivion (2003)
Abrams, N., 2019, In: Jewish Culture and History. 20, 3, p. 234-247
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2018
- Published2001: 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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - PublishedEnglish 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 journal › Special issue › peer-review - PublishedIntroduction: 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 journal › Special issue › peer-review - PublishedRemotely 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 proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - PublishedStanley 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
2017
- PublishedEmilio 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 journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review - PublishedReview 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 journal › Book/Film/Article review - PublishedThe (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 - PublishedWhat 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. 416-435
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2016
- PublishedBritish Jews are using Facebook to create new “pop-up” communities
Abrams, N., 17 Aug 2016
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site - PublishedHidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture
Abrams, N. (ed.), Aug 2016, Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. 284 p. (Cultural Expressions of World War II)
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review - PublishedIntroduction
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 - PublishedKubrick’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 - PublishedThe 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. 3-8
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedThe Wandering Ape: Postscript to “Kubrick’s Double: Lolita’s Hidden Heart of Jewishness.”
Abrams, N., 2016
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
2015
- PublishedAppropriation 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 - PublishedBecoming 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 journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedDr. Strangelove and the Final Solution’
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 21 Jul 2015.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedHidden 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 - PublishedJames Bond: A Jewish Fantasy
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 3 Sept 2015.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedStanley 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedStanley Kubrick’s “agnostic prayer”: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 5 Jul 2015.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe 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
2014
- Published'Dr. Strangelove’ and the Jewish question
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 13 Jul 2014.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedA 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 journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedA 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 journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedA 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 journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedAn 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. 62-81
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedFilm, 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedLocating 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedMuscles, 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 - PublishedThe 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedThe Myth of Tyranny: Stanley Kubrick's Working Practices
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 24 Jul 2014.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2013
- PublishedDigesting 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. 215-234
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedHistory as Necessity in Everydayness and the Event
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 29 Aug 2013.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedIntroduction
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 journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedKubrick’s Double: Lolita’s Hidden Heart of Jewishness
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 8 Sept 2013.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedLolita’s Hidden Heart of Jewishness
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 11 Sept 2013.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe Kindertransp ort in Film
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 25 Jun 2013.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe “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. 6-19
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2012
- Published"A double set of glasses": Stanley Kubrick and the midrashic mode of interpretation
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Ba, S. M. (ed.) & Higbee, W. (ed.), 28 Jun 2012, De-Westernizing Film Studies. 2012 ed. Routledge, p. 141-151
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedAn Unofficial Cultural Ambassador - Arthur Miller and the Cultural Cold War
Abrams, N. D., Romijn, P. (ed.), Scott-Smith, G. (ed.) & Segal, J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2012, Divided Dreamworlds? : The Cultural Cold War in East and West. 2012 ed. Amsterdam University Press, p. 13-32
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedGrassroots 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedIntroduction: ‘Jews in British cinema’
Abrams, N., 2012, In: Journal of European Popular Culture. 3, 2, p. 111-115
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedJute, 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. 86-97
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedReverse stereotypes: anti-anti-Semitic counter-communication in contemporary cinema
Abrams, N. D., 17 Apr 2012.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedSub-epidermic Jewishness’: Stanley Kubrick’s Mythical Movie Jews
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 29 Sept 2012.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe 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
2011
- 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 proceeding › Chapter
2010
- PublishedHidden: 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 journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedNorman Podhoretz and Commentary Magazine: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons.
Abrams, N. D., 1 Jan 2010, Continuum.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedSpirituality 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 - PublishedThe (Un)natural Jew.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2010.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe 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 proceeding › Chapter
2009
- PublishedAn Unofficial Cultural Ambassador: Arthur Miller and the Cultural Cold War.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 2 Aug 2009.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedCaledonian Jews: A Study of Seven Small Communities in Scotland
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2009, McFarland & Co.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedFrom 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedThe 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedThe 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
- PublishedA Seminoma Story.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Scharper, D. (ed.) & Scharper, P. (ed.), 1 Jan 2008, Reading Lips and other ways to overcome a disability. 2008 ed. Apprentice House, p. 79-84
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedAn Unofficial Cultural Ambassador: Arthur Miller and the Cultural Cold War.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedCeltic Jews: The Small Jewish Communities of Scotland and North Wales.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedConsistently Controversial: Commentary Magazine, 1945 to the Present.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site - PublishedEverything You Always Wanted to Know about Jews & Sex in the Movies but Were Too Afraid to Ask.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedEverything You Always Wanted to Know about Jews & Sex in the Movies but Were Too Afraid to Ask.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedIntroduction.
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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedJews & 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 - PublishedJews and Sex.
Abrams, N. D. (ed.) & Abrams, N. (ed.), 1 Jan 2008, 2008 ed. Five Leaves Publications.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedKosher 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedMigrations, Screen Identities and the European Jewish Diasporas.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2008.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - 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 proceeding › Chapter - 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 proceeding › Chapter - Published“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
2007
- 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 conference › Paper - PublishedCeltic Jews: The Small Jewish Communities of Scotland and North Wales.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedFrom 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 - PublishedHeartless Violence and Hopeless Schmucks.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007, In: Jewish Quarterly. 205, p. 62-66
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedI 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 - PublishedMental Health and the Moving Image.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedMental Health and the Moving Image.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedNorman 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedPaupers, peddlers and prayers: uncovering the ‘lost’ Jewish communities of Scotland.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedRemote Jews: Uncovering the lost Jewish communities of Scotland.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedShouting at Power: Norman Podhoretz and American Foreign Policy.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe (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 - PublishedThe 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. 147-168
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedThe Smaller Jewish Communities in Scotland and Wales.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2007.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - 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 proceeding › Chapter - Published‘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
2006
- PublishedAmerican 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 - PublishedBack to the Past: American Cinema of the 1980s.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedCommentary.
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 - PublishedFalling Down.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedIntellectual 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedJews in Scotland: Myth and Reality.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Kaplan, H., 1 Jan 2006, In: History Scotland. 6, 4, p. 38-43
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedJulius 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 - PublishedNeoconservatism - the end of an ideology?
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedNew 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 - PublishedRemote Jews.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedStanley Kubrick, the Holocaust and History.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedStanley Kubrick: Auteur, Genius, Jew.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe 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 - PublishedThe Da Vinci Code, Jews and the Neocons.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe Naughties: American Cinema of the New Millennium.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe Rise and Fall of the Neocons.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2006.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedWhat are you hiding in that brown paper bag?
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Apr 2006
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site - PublishedWhere Neo-Conservatism Was Born.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 11 Dec 2006, In: History News Network.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2005
- PublishedAll 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 - PublishedCommentary 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 - PublishedDesigner Ethnicity – The New Jew Crew: Urban Jewish Ethnicity in New York.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedJews and Jewishness in American Politics.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedReel Jews.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedReel Jews? A Look at Quirky Jews on Screen.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedReel Jews? A Look at Quirky Jews on Screen.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedRemote Jews.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedRevolving 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 - PublishedThe Counter-Culture Strikes Back: American Films of the 1960s.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe Cultural Significance of World War II.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe Jewish Dream Factory: Jews and the American Film Industry.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe Jews of Aberdeen and the Dee Street Shul.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe Movie Brat Generation: American Cinema of the 1970s.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe Neocons: What Do We Really Know About Them?
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe Reds Are Coming! American Films of the 1950s.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedWhat makes a Jewish film Jewish?
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - 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 proceeding › Chapter - Published“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
2004
- Published"I'll have whatever she’s having”: Jewish Food on Film.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Bowers, A. (ed.), 1 Jan 2004, Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film. 2004 ed. Routledge, p. 87-100
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedAmerican Jews and (Neo)-Conservatism: Exploding a Few Myths.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedCinema Industry.
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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedDesigner Ethnicity.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedEpics: The Bible and Beyond.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedJews, American Politics, the Elections and Neo-Cons.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedPointless Tedium - Don't You Just Love It?
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 28 May 2004
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site - PublishedPorn Again Jews: Jewish Involvement in the Adult Film Industry.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedSteven 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedStructure is archaic, confused. See me!!
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 14 May 2004
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site - PublishedTriple Exthnics.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004, In: Jewish Quarterly. 196, p. 27-30
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedTrue Blue Jews: Jewish Involvement in the Adult Film Industry.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedWe love our students-they're so appealing.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 23 Jan 2004
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site - PublishedWhat makes a Jewish Film Jewish?
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2004.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - Published“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 - Published“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
2003
- PublishedA 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 journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedA 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 journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedAmerican 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 - PublishedAre 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 journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedArthur Miller.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N. & Kerberl, S. (ed.), 1 Jan 2003, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. 2003 ed. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedElliot E. Cohen and the Shaping of Commentary.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2003.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedFocus on Science Fiction.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2003.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedFrom 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 journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedIt's time to rock the lecture boat.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 17 Jan 2003
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site - PublishedReel Kashrut: Jewish Food in Film.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2003, In: Jewish Quarterly. 50, 1, p. 53-55
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedRemembering the Rosenbergs: America, Jews and Anti-Semitism.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2003.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedRemind me why I’m a “commando” lecturer.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 3 Oct 2003
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site - PublishedThe Pianist.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2003.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2002
- PublishedA Significant Journal of Opinion: Commentary Magazine 1945-1995.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2002.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedComparing Memories: Holocaust Memorialization in the UK and USA.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2002.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedFocus on American Gothic.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2002.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedFocus on Bergman.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2002.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedRe-presenting the Past: History on Film.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2002.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedStars.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2002.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2001
- PublishedA Significant Journal of Jewish Opinion? Commentary Magazine.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedBlaxploitation.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedContaining America: Cultural Production and Consumption in Fifties America.
Abrams, N. D. (ed.), Abrams, N. (ed.) & Hughes, J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, 2001 ed. University of Birmingham Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedContemporary American Society in Film: David Fincher’s Fight Club.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedFilm 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedFrom Madness to Dysentery: Mad’s Other New York Intellectuals.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedIntroduction.
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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedJewish 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedJewish 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedMother’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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedNorth by Northwest and Memento.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedPaul 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 proceeding › Chapter - PublishedSex and Obscenity in Commentary Magazine.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedStudying Film.
Abrams, N. D., Abrams, N., Bell, I. & Udris, J., 1 Jan 2001, Hodder Arnold.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedThe Holocaust on Film.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe Jewish Dream Factory: Jews and the American Film Industry.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedUndoing the Cold War: Mad Magazine.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 1 Jan 2001.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2000
- PublishedCelebrating 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. 5-23
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedIt's a mad world.
Abrams, N. D. & Abrams, N., 28 Feb 2000
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site - Published‘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. 45-74
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published‘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. Online
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
2026
- Thought for the Weekend
A reflection on Holocaust Memorial Day 2024.
31 Jan 2026
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Holocaust Memorial Day 2024
Annual Holocaust commemoration service featuring staff, students, members of the public, local dignitaries and school pupils.
26 Jan 2026
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor)
2024
- The Occult Stanley Kubrick
Occult means ''occluded, hidden from view''. It denotes a world of mystery and esoteric knowledge hidden in plain sight, a world that only divulges its secrets to those who speak the secret language of symbols. Legendary auteur Stanley Kubrick certainly was well-versed in this language -his films mostly take place in liminal, dreamlike settings where nothing is ever as it seems, and where strange, subconscious forces loom just below the surface, bleeding through the mundane and subverting it completely. The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty years. Nathan Abrams fills that gap with his Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey. This groundbreaking work illuminates all things Kubrick, including his ''occult'' aspect that has given rise to speculation, myths and even conspiracies over the years. Abrams has based his biography on access to the latest research, especially into Kubrick archive at the University of the Arts, London, as well as new interviews with family members and those who worked with the filmmaker. It offers comprehensive and in-depth coverage of Kubrick’s personal, private, public, and working life. Join us to discuss this lesser known, ''occluded'' Kubrick and puncture a few myths about this allegedly reclusive filmmaker, who created some of the most important works of art of the twentieth century.
26 Jul 2024
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Eyes Wide Shut at 25: why Stanley Kubrick’s final film was also his greatest
15 Jul 2024
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Podcast interview with Olga Gershenson about her new book New Israeli Horror Local Cinema, Global Genre.
13 Jul 2024
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Podcast: New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre
An interview with author Olga Gershenson
13 Jul 2024
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference
Given both long-standing and recent debates about feminism, identity, equality, trans rights, women’s religious and political leadership, Queer representation, and reproductive rights, the 2024 British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies annual conference will focus on questions of gender and sexuality. The BIAJS conference, as always, spans many academic fields, and approaches to the topic can be wide-ranging—from an analysis of the Talmud’s engagement with gender and sexual diversity, to an archaeological study of ancient female figurines, to a history of businesswomen in medieval Europe, to a literary reading of Naomi Alderman’s novel The Power. In fact, the conference invites scholars to think within and across disciplines and to forge new connections that allow us to reimagine gender and sexuality within the Jewish world, Jewish Studies, and beyond.
7 Jul 2024 – 10 Jul 2024
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Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Participant) - An interview about Kubrick: An Odyssey
In this episode, Eliana interviews Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams about their biography, Kubrick: An Odyssey, which explores the life of the notable director Stanley Kubrick. Using the latest research and new interviews, it provides a comprehensive look into Kubrick’s life, work, and unmade projects, while debunking myths about his reclusive nature.
4 Jul 2024
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Donald Sutherland’s off-beat, counter-cultural roles reflected his leftwing politics
27 Jun 2024
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Pre-Screening Introduction of Eyes Wide Shut
This year, Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut, is 25 years old. Join Professor Nathan Abrams in conversation with Kira-Anne Pelican who worked in the art department on the film.
5 Jun 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Kafka 100: Stanley Kubrick’s films are littered with references to the writer’s work
31 May 2024
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Introduction to Dr. Strangelove
Join us for a special 60th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Before the film starts, we will discuss all things about Kubrick with Professor Nathan Abrams, co-author of Kubrick: An Odyssey.
18 May 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Mapping North Wales Jewish History
The audience included people in Ukraine, Romania, Australia, USA, Scotland and Manchester.
15 May 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - On Kubrick
Everyone knows the name Stanley Kubrick, but how many of us know the man behind the camera? Enigmatic, aloof, and heralded as a cinematic genius, Kubrick gave the world 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, and The Shining. His persona remains a point of interest among fans and academics alike.
We're delighted, then, to welcome Nathan Abrams - co-author of Faber's Kubrick: A Cinematic Odyssey - to tell us all about Kubrick. Perhaps he can help us tease fact from fiction, myth from reality. We hope you'll join is!
6 May 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - “Curb Your Enthusiasm bows out after 24 years – or does it?”
16 Apr 2024
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
A special screening was presented by Professor of Film at Bangor University, Nathan Abrams, co-author of Kubrick: An Odyssey published by Faber. The film was introduced by Nathan Abrams followed by a Q&A.
13 Apr 2024
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
A special screening presented by Professor of Film at Bangor University, Nathan Abrams, co-author of Kubrick: An Odyssey published by Faber. The film was introduced by Nathan Abrams followed by a Q&A.
13 Apr 2024
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Twin Town
Moderated a roundtable discussion at Pontio after a screening of the 1997 film with director Kevin Allen and actor Llyr Ifans.
27 Mar 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - LSW Agile Cymru Workshop
Workshop held as part of the Learned Society of Wales supported project "Exploring lived experiences of Jews in Wales and Ireland"
13 Mar 2024 – 31 Mar 2024
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser) - Celtic Academies Alliance
Learned Society of Wales-Agile Cymru Pilot Ireland-Wales Networking Project:
Comparison of Minority Cultural, Heritage and Language Experiences: Jews in Wales and Ireland
12 Mar 2024
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Endorsement for Alexis Pogorelskin’s book "Hollywood and the Nazis on the Eve of War: The Case of The Mortal Storm"
1 Mar 2024
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member) - The Zone of Interest in Context
An introduction at Pontio to Jonathan Glazer's new film, The Zone of Interest, situating it in the context of the attempts to visualize the holocaust on film.
26 Feb 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - New Books Network Podcast
An interview about our book "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024) was New Books Network Book of the Day!
6 Feb 2024
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Introducing Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick's celebrated satire centres on an insane general who triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and military men frantically tries to stop. It stars Peter Sellers as an RAF officer, the President of the USA and the mysterious scientist Dr. Strangelove, one of cinema's most unique comic creations.
This special screening celebrates the publication of Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams' Kubrick: An Odyssey (Faber and Faber), the first full-length biography of Kubrick in 20 years and the most comprehensive to date. Copies of the book will be available to buy on the day, courtesy of the London Review Bookshop.
21 Jan 2024
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Lived experiences of Jews in Wales and Ireland Agile Cymru Network Workshop
Organised and attended the lived experiences of Jews in Wales and Ireland Agile Cymru Network Workshop
17 Jan 2024 – 18 Jan 2024
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker) - Spielberg’s Schindler’s List destroyed the long-planned Kubrick Shoah film
4 Jan 2024
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
2023
- Lexington Books (Publisher)
Promotional endorsement for the forthcoming book The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen: Dybbuks, Demons and Haunted Jewish Pasts by Rebecca Margolis. This book will be published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, in 2024.
18 Dec 2023
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member) - Caernarfon's Jews in Context
A lecture on the Jewish community in North Walesg iven to the society’s Annual General Meeting, Galeri, Caernafon.
25 Nov 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Cross-Party Group on Faith: "People and places of faith: Is Wales doing enough to promote, protect and celebrate its faith heritage?"
Cross-Party Group on Faith
People and places of faith: Is Wales doing enough to promote, protect and celebrate its faith heritage?
Guest speakers: Christine Moore, Trust Manager, Addoldai Cymru
Professor Nathan Abrams, Bangor University
Wednesday 8 November 2023
12.00 – 13.00
Conference rooms C&D, Tŷ Hywel 1st floor, Cardiff Bay
This will be an in-person meeting with hybrid facilities available.
8 Nov 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - ‘2001: Una odisea del espacio’: una huella imborrable 55 años después de su estreno
25 Sep 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Bywyd fel 'yr unig Iddew yn y pentref'
24 Sep 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Trai Iddewiaeth
24 Sep 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Perusing “The Seinfeld Talmud”
A review of Jarrod Tanny’s new book “The Seinfeld Talmud: A Jewish Guide to a Show about Nothing.”
21 Sep 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Paul Verhoeven @ 85
Paul Verhoeven (b. 1938) has left an indelible mark on popular culture. His films marry a European arthouse sensibility with the US blockbuster but in a wickedly satirical way. But this does not mean his films are not open to criticism.
His American dystopic trilogy – RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990) and Starship Troopers (1997) – provided dark visions of futuristic metropoles that continues to resonate to this day, touching on capitalism, robotics, biopolitics, posthumanism, urban planning, artificial intelligence, transhumanism and climate change, while female-led dramas, such as Basic Instinct (1992), Showgirls (1995), Black Book (2006), Elle (2016) and Benedetta (2021), remain controversial for their overt eroticism, sexual violence and representation of lesbianism.
To critically explore the origins and legacies of Verhoeven’s body of work, this conference proposes to bring together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore Paul Verhoeven’s output, debate its legacy and consider its position within visual culture including specialists from fields as diverse as literary and cinematographic studies; the history of art, design, fashion and architecture; musicology; philosophy; political sciences; computer science and robotics; urban and ecological studies; and feminist, queer and sexuality studies.
7 Sep 2023 – 8 Sep 2023
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Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser) - Preserving Welsh history as the only Jew in the village
17 Aug 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - 55 anos depois, '2001: Uma Odisseia no Espaço' ainda deixa marcas indeléveis
14 Aug 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - A Disppearing History: Recording Jewish culture in north Wales
Aug 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Judaism and Jewish Religiosity on Screen in the 21st Century
Chairing panel and session and discussant in plenary Round table: Approaches, Trends, Discourses
6 Jul 2023
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Judaism and Jewish Religiosity on Screen in the 21st Century
5 Jul 2023 – 6 Jul 2023
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Obituary: Si Litvinoff
30 Jun 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The secret Jewish roots of Indiana Jones
29 Jun 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The Thirteenth Tel Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema and Television Studies
20 Jun 2023 – 22 Jun 2023
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Book launch for Alien Legacies
18 Jun 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Jewish Heritage in Abergele
I provided council members with an overview of a proposed Jewish Heritage Trail project in the Abergele area.
15 Jun 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Endorsement of Remembering Annie Hall, edited by Jonathan Ellis and Ana María Sánchez-Arce
2 Jun 2023
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member) - A Sense of Belonging
Director Paul Morrison, Rabbi-Psychotherapist-Writer Howard Cooper and Actor-Comedian-Screenwriter David Schneider, in conversation with Professor Nathan Abrams, Bangor University, Wales
Jun 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - DEGAS AND PISSARRO FALL OUT
Director Paul Morrison and Actors Henry Goodman and Alison Steadman, in discussion with Professor Nathan Abrams, Bangor University, Wales
Jun 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - FROM BITTER EARTH: ARTISTS OF THE HOLOCAUST
Director Paul Morrison and Historian-Curator-Writer Monica Bohm-Duchen, in conversation with Professor Nathan Abrams, Bangor University, Wales
Jun 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - How Alien mutated from a sci-fi horror film into a multimedia universe
23 May 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Obituary: David Gold
19 May 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Seinfeld: how a sitcom ‘about nothing’ changed television for good
12 May 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual
10 May 2023
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Seinfeld at 25: How it gave us a golden age of TV Jews
9 May 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Book Review
Review of Birdsplaining by Jasmine Donahaye and Finding Refuge by Andrea Hammel
May 2023 – Jul 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Is The Big Lebowski’s Walter the greatest Jewish character?
20 Apr 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual
28 Mar 2023
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual
16 Mar 2023
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education Meeting
14 Mar 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor) - External PhD Examiner
Peter Garry's thesis "‘They Thought it was New York’: An Examination of the Historiography and Representations of the Cork Jewish Community"
28 Feb 2023
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor) - “Universalizing the Holocaust on Film, 1990-Present"
The conference is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
20 Feb 2023
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Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Universalizing The Holocaust
On February 19-20, 2023, the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida will host an interdisciplinary conference devoted to the history and significance of the Holocaust’s universalization.
The aim is not to revisit whether universalization of the Holocaust in and of itself banalizes the Jewish catastrophe. Rather, it is to investigate how the Holocaust has been and is currently viewed and remembered, and to investigate the idea of universalization and how it has developed. Of special interest is how formerly colonized people and other oppressed groups have sought meaning and significance for their experiences from the Holocaust and/or how they have applied its memory, lessons, and legacies to their past and contemporary experiences.
The conference assembles a diverse group of scholars, to discuss how Holocaust history and memory have been universalized in informative ways but also in ways that have misrepresented the past and present.
The Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida thanks Norman and Irma Braman for their most generous support for this conference and for Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida.
19 Feb 2023 – 20 Feb 2023
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Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Holocaust Memorial Day
A hybrid event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2023.
27 Jan 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Why Not Litter?
Join the Trash Free Trails team for an online talk uncovering the history of 'litter', the push for a re-naming, and its place in the TFT ethos.
As we dedicate the winter to reflecting on our mission and preparing for all that 2023 has in store, we invite you to join us as we unpack some of the nitty gritty of what makes Trash Free Trails thought leaders in their field.
This is a free online event, open to all. The event will be hosted on Zoom, with opportunity to ask questions and take part in discussion at the end of the session. The event will last 75 minutes.
25 Jan 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Interfaith: Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Druidism
Interfaith in Wales - a discussion with members of Welsh faith communities. Contributors will include representatives from some of the different faith communities in Wales: Laura Jones who’s Muslim and wishes to translate Islamic texts into Welsh; Kris Hughes a Druid, Prof. Nathan Abrams of the Jewish faith, and Sudha Bhatt of the Hindu Council of Wales. There will be simultaneous translation.
19 Jan 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Mapping the Jewish Impact on North Wales' Jewish Environment
18 Jan 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Providing an endorsement for James Naremore's On Kubrick: Revised Edition (London: BFI, 2023).
9 Jan 2023
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member) - Podcast Episode 605: Eyes Wide Shut Redux
Special Guests: Nathan Abrams, Robert P. Kolker
Guest Co-Hosts: Matthew Asprey Gear, Rob St. Mary
On this special episode we’re revisiting a movie we talked about ten years ago, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). The final film from director Stanley Kubrick, we’re checking in on the film some 23 years after its release. We’ll be discussing the film, an interesting fan edit of the movie, and a 2019 book about the film from authors Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams.
Matthew Asprey Gear and Rob St. Mary join Mike to reevaluate the film.
4 Jan 2023
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
2022
- 40 years ago this month, the most Jewish film ever came out
22 Dec 2022
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Five on-screen references to Hanukkah to help you celebrate this Jewish festival
21 Dec 2022
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - How art inspired director Stanley Kubrick’s famous horror film The Shining
14 Dec 2022
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Shining a light on Kubrick's influences
14 Dec 2022
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Disrupting Dominance in the Archive
Join us to disrupt traditional research into ‘identity archives’ such as the Stanley Kubrick Archive (housed at LCC), which centre particular histories and present only certain elements of the past. Over this two-day event many different archives will be explored through a range of papers, case studies and interdisciplinary perspectives, problematising existing histories and narratives to move the discussion forward.
This conference will (re)examine examples of identity archives, debate the contested nature of archives, challenge current archival methods, and explore innovative archival practices. The conference will seek to answer questions such as; how can marginalised voices and identities be excavated from archives? How can we bridge the archival divide and encourage dialogue between archivists and researchers? And how do we approach archives and research to reach a better understanding of the past?
6 Dec 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Obituary: Bob Rafelson
17 Nov 2022
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Rutgers University Press (Publisher)
Peer review of the manuscript '“Transparent” and Queering the TV Jewish Family' edited by Nora Rubel (University of Rochester) and Brett Krutzsch (NYU).
Nov 2022
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member) - 34th Annual Symposium on Jewish Civilization
34th Annual Symposium on Jewish Civilization
Chronicling Jews and Crime: From Law-Makers to Law-Breakers
Sunday, October 23 - Monday, October 24, 2022
Co-hosted by
The Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, Creighton University
The Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society, Creighton University
The Harris Center for Judaic Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Natan and Hannah Schwalb Center for Israel & Jewish Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha
The Jewish Federation of Omaha
23 Oct 2022 – 24 Oct 2022
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Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Keynote Address: “Cops and Criminals: Jews in Twenty-First Century Film and Television”
Hayim Nahman Bialik, the famed Hebrew poet, said during the 1920s that the Jews would know that their dream of a nation-state had been fulfilled when there were Jewish prostitutes, Jewish thieves, and a Jewish police force. The world of film and television has realized this dream as it depicts Jews on both sides of the law, both as criminals and crime preventers. Since Jews were historically involved in gangsterism, including Ace Rothstein, Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz, and Bugsy Siegel, and, more recently, Bernie Madoff, Harvey Weinstein, and Jeffrey Epstein, they have also long been represented in film, both in terms of feature film and documentary. On the other side of the law, the world of the police is perceived as one that excludes Jews. Back in 1944, German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote of “the traditional Jewish fear of the ‘cop’ – that seeming incarnation of a hostile world.” But that hasn’t stopped their fictional representation on film and television. This paper will provide an illustrated discussion of twenty-first century representations of Jewish criminals and police in a variety of contexts (film and television) and locations.
23 Oct 2022
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Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Walking Jewish History: Reference in Senedd
The project "Walking Jewish History" was described by Darren Millar AM in the Senedd during a plenary session where he asked a question about faith-based heritage projects. He asked that the Welsh Government look at the future facilitation of such projects, and used the Walking Jewish History project as an exemplar.
22 Oct 2022
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Activity: Other (Contributor) - Joe Turkel
23 Sep 2022
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Why don't people realise that Marilyn Monroe was Jewish?
23 Sep 2022
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Review Panel: UK-German Funding Initiative in the Humanities Fourth Call: 2021-2022, AHRC-DFG
Serving on the moderation meeting.
13 Sep 2022 – 15 Sep 2022
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor) - #EnergyLitter: Semiotics & Shared Responsibility
Talk at the 2nd annual State of Our Trails Summit, M-Sparc.
4 Jul 2022
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Do androids dream of electric Jews?
The classic sci fi movie Blade Runner is 40 years old. Nathan Abrams argues that this AI tale can be read in a very Jewish way
23 Jun 2022
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- https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/all/do-androids-dream-of-electric-jews-7aK8QrMTATfL5Pfh6Oi5xM
- Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual
A talk delivered at Limmud Bristol SW.
19 Jun 2022
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Talk about Judaism
Talk about Judaism to about 100 pupils in Years 5 and 6.
16 Jun 2022
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Midge Decter
An obituary of Midge Decter
9 Jun 2022
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Blade Runner at 40
Blade Runner @ 40: Origins and Legacies
6 Jun 2022 – 7 Jun 2022
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Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser) - Obituary: Dan Graham
12 May 2022
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Star Wars
After delivering the Wednesday Work, I talk to Behnaz Akhgar about Star Wars.
4 May 2022
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Edinburgh University Press (Publisher)
Endorsement for the book ReFocus: The Films of Ken Russell edited by Matthew Melia.
May 2022
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member) - Anthem Press (Publisher)
Endorsement for the book, "Re-Membering the Tribe: Finding the Judaism in Secular Jewish Philosophers" by Steven Gimbel and Stephen Stern.
21 Mar 2022
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member) - Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual
20 Mar 2022
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Contribution to the Technical Advisory Group: Consensus statement on face masks for the public report.
Advice on the use of face coverings or masks by the public after the peak of the Omicron wave. Work for AHRC grant quoted in Welsh Government report
11 Mar 2022
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Activity: Other (Contributor) - Podcast: Movie-Made Jews
An interview with Helene Meyers, author of the book Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition for the New Books Network.
11 Mar 2022
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Llafur Spring Series 2022: Heritage, Landscape and Tourism
Episode 1: Curious Travellers: Then and Now
Llafur begins its online Spring Series of 2022 with an exploration of how Welsh communities have been visited by people from across the country, and further afield, since the eighteenth century. Through this lens of travel, we can further uncover the ways the Welsh landscape has been transformed as a result of industrialisation, and how a continuing curiosity has translated into current heritage projects that shine an important light on hidden Welsh histories. To discuss this subject, join us and our guest speakers, Rita Singer, Nathan Abrams and Catrin Stevens, as we begin our journey through the subject of heritage, landscape and tourism.
10 Mar 2022
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Bond at 60
4 Mar 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - James Bond: A Jewish Fantasy
Jews played an important role in choreographing James Bond’s transition and transformation from the page to the screen, where he became of the most iconic figures in Western popular culture. Renowned film producer Harry Saltzman (born
Herschel Saltzman) optioned the film rights to the Bond stories after reading “Goldfinger” in 1961. Together with Albert R. Broccoli, he formed Eon Productions. Under its auspices, the Bond film franchise, particularly in its early days, employed much Jewish creative input both in front of and behind the camera (Monty Norman, Ken Adam, Richard Maibaum, Irvin Kershner,
Sam Mendes, Joseph Wiseman, Steven Berkoff). In adapting Bond, these Jewish creatives took Fleming’s more human, flawed and frail character and turned him into a sexy super-agent stud (he sleeps with far more women in the films than he does in
the books) who rarely fails to deliver. At the same time, they removed the explicit references to Jews that appeared in the novels of Bond’s creator, British writer Ian Fleming. This paper will explore the reasons behind this transition, as well as its
results. In so doing, it will present a counter-reading to argue that, given the heavy Jewish involvement and fascination with Bond, it is possible to read him as we do Superman. Scholars and other observers have long recognized that Clark Kent (born Kal-El) was a form of Jewish wish fulfilment on the part of his creators. Perhaps in the transition from the page to the screen, James Bond was likewise made into a Jewish icon even as the films were purged of explicitly Jewish content. To apply Jewish novelist Michael Chabon’s words about Clark Kent to James Bond: “only a Jew would pick a name like that for himself.”
4 Mar 2022
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Presentation to the Welsh Government's Technical Advisory Group (Environment)
Presentation of initial findings and recommendations regarding media messaging around sustainable face mask and covering use to the Welsh Government's Technical Advisory Group (Environment).
2 Mar 2022
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker) - The Shining de Stanley Kubrick
The Shining de Stanley Kubrick: Analyses pluridisciplinaires d’un chef d’oeuvre cinématographique
17 Feb 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - The Shining, antisemitism and the paranoid style
Presentation at the Study Day: The Shining de Stanley Kubrick: Analyses pluridisciplinaires d’un chef d’oeuvre cinématographique
17 Feb 2022
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Jewish History of North Wales
Invited talk to approx. 30 participants.
16 Feb 2022
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - The Jewish history of Llandudno
A talk about the Jewish History of Llandudno to an audience of approx. 60-70.
8 Feb 2022
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Podcast: Holocaust Cinema Complete
An interview with Rich Brownstein about his book "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" published by McFarlandBooks for the New Books Network.
1 Feb 2022
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Lexington Books (Publisher)
Endorsement for the book Sorceror: William Friedkin and the New Hollywood by Mark Wheeler.
Feb 2022
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member) - Holocaust Memorial Day 2022
I organised a talk by Vivienne Cato about her mother who survived the Holocaust.
26 Jan 2022
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Soros
Review of the documentary, Soros
12 Jan 2022
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Podcast: The Babel Message
Interview with Keith Kahn-Harris about his new book, The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language (Icon Books, 2021).
7 Jan 2022
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The Jewishness of film director Stanley Kubrick
5 Jan 2022
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor)
2021
- The boundaries of Jewish culture: A JewThink panel
A panel discussion at the Limmud Festival 2021
27 Dec 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish intellectual
A discussion about Stanley Kubrick's Jewishness for the Limmud Festival 2021
26 Dec 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Subverting the Race. Jews, Porn, and Antisemitism in Contemporary American Discourse
15 Dec 2021
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Antisemitism and Sexuality Reconsidered
Although constructions of Jewish sexualities and alleged Jewish attacks on sexual morals have played a significant role in modern antisemitic worldviews – whether the same is true for premodern times has to be discussed –, few historical studies have focused on the connection between sexualities and Jew-hatred. Against this backdrop, the conference aims to stimulate further research and debate on this topic. To bring the differences in the role sexualitites played in judeophobic discourses at different times and in different regions into view, the temporal and geographical focus of the conference reaches beyond the times of modern antisemitism and beyond ‘Western societies.’
In manifold ways, sexualities have played a crucial role in the history of judeophobia. Since ancient times, sexuality has been one of the fields where the borders between different communities, Jewish and otherwise, were drawn most fiercely. At least since the rise of modern antisemitism imaginary conceptions of deviant and dangerous ‘Jewish’ sexualities became crucial. In modern antisemitism, sexual desires attributed to Jews have been characterized by a transgression of the male-female binary – a characteristic that corresponds to constructions of Jewish effeminate manhood and masculinized womanhood. Whereas discourses ascribed ‘unmanly‘ desires to Jewish men in different ways, Jewish women were constructed as seductive, passionate, and sexually active: attributes that have typically had a male connotation. At the same time, constructions of Jewish sexualities have reinforced notions of male activity and female passivity.
Historians have demonstrated that the alleged deviant sexualities of Jews were inscribed into their bodies. Since the end of the 17th century discursive linkages between the circumcised penis and sexual amorality were shaped in debates about Jewish bodies.
In addition, antisemitic discourses also constructed Jews as forces that used their alleged social power to undermine sexual morals and the sexual order. Adolf Hitler accused Jews of ‘mongrelizing’ the ‘white race’; Sayyid Qutb, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, lamented that Jews spread a doctrine of ‘animalistic sexuality’; and contemporary far rightists fantasize about an alleged Jew-driven ‘porn conspiracy’ aimed at turning whole countries into “masturbatoria” and by this means strengthening and expanding alleged Jewish social dominance.
We hope that inviting attention to a broader reconsideration of ‘Antisemitism and Sexuality’ will shed light on the topic and how it can be expanded in interesting new directions.
13 Dec 2021 – 15 Dec 2021
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Age of Confidence: Women in Film
How have trends in Jewish film changed over the past 20 years and what does the future hold for women in the industry? We find out at this special event co-hosted with UK Jewish Film, featuring actor and writer Susannah Wise and fellow actor and showrunner Sarah Solemani, who recently adapted Ridley Road for the BBC. Chaired by film writer and professor in film at Bangor University, Nathan Abrams, who penned the film chapter in our new book, Age of Confidence: The New Jewish Culture Wave. This event is in conjunction with UK Jewish Film and forms part of our 20th anniversary year of celebrations.
6 Dec 2021
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Hanes yr Iddewon yn Llandudno- A Jewish History of Llandudno Walk
s early as Victorian times, the commercial opportunities afforded by Llandudno’s emergence as a holiday resort attracted many Jewish merchants. Over the years the Jewish community has played a huge part in the development of the town- its economy, its culture, its political life, and even its sporting achievement. This tour is a celebration of that heritage and enables you to 'walk and discover' a history of Jews in Llandudno.
5 Dec 2021
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Mask wearing wasn’t disputed in previous crises – so why is it so hotly contested today?
25 Nov 2021
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Stanley Kubrick: the New York Jewish Intellectual
A Zoom talk hosted by the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, Holland Park, London about Stanley Kubrick's Jewishness.
24 Nov 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - The Policeman
A review of the 1971 Israeli classic film.
10 Nov 2021
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Apples and Oranges
A review of a new documentary about kibbutz volunteers.
Nov 2021
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Norman Lloyd Obituary
22 Oct 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - ‘The Unnatural Jew: Jews and Nature’
A talk as part of the ‘Gardens, Environment and Racial Identities’ workshop for Black History Month.
22 Oct 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual
A talk about Stanley Kubrick's Jewishness.
12 Oct 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Tsitsit Talks – In conversation with Prof. Nathan Abrams
An online conversation about British Jewish film and television and Jews in and on British film and television.
6 Oct 2021
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Plan A
Revew of the film, Plan A
21 Sep 2021
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Stanley Kubrick
A forty-five minute interview about Stanley Kubrick on ABC Radio's 'Overnights' programme.
7 Sep 2021
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Lexington Books (Publisher)
Endorsement provided for Sorcerer: William Friedkin and the New Hollywood by Mark Wheeler.
Sep 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member) - Thief's Monthly Movie Loot 43: The Kubrick Loot (with Nathan Abrams) Podcast
Get ready for a Kubrickian episode, as me and guest Nathan Abrams explore the rooms of the Overlook Hotel, the jungles of Vietnam, and the infinites of space while we talk about my favorite director, Stanley Kubrick. Abrams, a film scholar and expert on Kubrick also shares with us his Top 5 Kubrick films, but we talk about pretty much everything Kubrick, as well as his work in academia. Check it out!
15 Aug 2021
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Will mask wearing still be common in Britain after the pandemic is over?
6 Aug 2021
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Norton Juster
An obituary of the author of The Phantom Tollbooth
11 Jun 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Roundtable on Welsh universities and IHRA definition on antisemitism with Lord Mann
An online roundtable on Welsh universities and IHRA definition on antisemitism with Lord Mann organised by the Board of Deputies of British Jews
14 Apr 2021
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker) - Walking Jewish History
A talk for the Connecting Small Histories History Festival
23 Mar 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - A Golden Age of Television
An online lecture about British Jewish Television. 20 participants.
15 Mar 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Heritage and Memory: Exploring Jewish Wales
An online discussion about Jewish Heritage in Wales with Dr. Cai Parry-Jones and John Minkes of the JHASW. 120 participants.
11 Mar 2021
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual?
Stanley Kubrick is generally acknowledged as one of the world’s great directors. Yet few critics or scholars have considered how he emerged from a unique and vibrant cultural milieu: the New York Jewish intelligentsia. In this talk, Nathan Abrams re-examines the director’s work in context of his ethnic and cultural origins. Focusing on several of Kubrick’s key themes – including masculinity, ethical responsibility, and the nature of evil – it demonstrates how his films were in conversation with contemporary New York Jewish intellectuals who grappled with the same concerns. At the same time, it explores Kubrick’s fraught relationship with his Jewish identity and his reluctance to be pegged as an ethnic director, manifest in his removal of Jewish references and characters from stories he adapted.
Approx. 25 in attendance.
11 Feb 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Women facing tough screen -- and off-screen -- tests
A review of Women Vs. Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film by Helen O’Hara.
5 Feb 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The Holocaust on Film / Yr Holocost ar Ffilm
A virtual talk, aimed especially at schools, about representations of the Holocaust on film with a focus on the experiences of children and childhood. 58 Attendees.
3 Feb 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - The Jews of Llandudno
A talk about the Jews of Llandudno for th Aberconwy Historical Society over Zoom. 21 attendees.
3 Feb 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture
I organised a lecture by Gabriel Stein to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2021. Over 100 people, including staff, students, members of the publci and local community, were in attendance.
27 Jan 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Corner of a foreign field that is forever the Bronx
Review of David Mikics' Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker, pp 54-55.
Jan 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Reviewing of Applications for the Fellowship Program
Jan 2021
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor) - Queer and Jewish is too much for some audiences
An interview with the director of Shiva Baby, Emma Seligman.
2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
2020
- The super-nerdy reason ‘Wonder Woman’ is set in 1984
29 Dec 2020
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Dan Schneider Video Interview #302: Why 2001: A Space Odyssey Is Great
28 Nov 2020
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Why is UK higher education like WeWork?
28 Nov 2020
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror
19 Nov 2020
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - A Golden Age of Jewish Television?
A talk for AJR with 51 in the audience.
17 Nov 2020
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - The secret Jewish history of the condom
17 Nov 2020
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Post-screening discussion of Hollywood's Second World War
Hollywood's Second World War followed by a discussion with author and academic Nathan Abrams, filmmaker Roberta Grossman, hosted by broadcaster and journalist Jason Solomons.
14 Nov 2020
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - 'What did I learn in my many years at JFS? Nothing'
26 Oct 2020
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The Shining @ 40
A talk at Limmud South Africa
25 Oct 2020
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - ‘Borat da!’ Sacha Baron Cohen’s Welsh roots revealed
22 Oct 2020
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Llandudno’s Jewish Heritage
14 Oct 2020
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Sir Ronald Harwood: Leading playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter whose Jewishness informed his work
25 Sep 2020
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - “40 Years of The Shining,” a film by Stanley Kubrick
A presentation for the Jewish Studies Faculty Seminar.
Abstract: Stanley Kubrick's legendary horror film turned 40 this year. As I have argued, Kubrick was an intellectual, Jewish, and “Talmudic” filmmaker. Of all his films, The Shining is particularly rich when mining for Jewish and intellectual meaning. In this talk I shall explore some of those themes, as well as why the film attracts such obsessive attention four decades later. No prior knowledge needed but it is recommended to have seen the film.
17 Sep 2020
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker) - The Secret Jewish History of 'Dune'
10 Sep 2020
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The Shining at 40
Stanley Kubrick's legendary horror film turned 40 this year. Kubrick was an intellectual, Jewish, and “Talmudic” filmmaker. Of his films, The Shining is particularly Midrashic, Talmudic and Kabbalistic. In this session we shall explore some of those themes, as well as why it attracts such obsessive attention four decades later. No prior knowledge needed.
8 Sep 2020
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects, by Marc Olivier
17 Aug 2020
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Revisiting The Shining @ 40
Talk at Limmud Together UK via Zoom reaching 75 participants
2 Aug 2020
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Is Clueless Really Jew-Less?
19 Jul 2020
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Why Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001’ is the ultimate golem story
7 Jul 2020
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - A welcome democratisation of British Jewish culture
Jul 2020
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - JewThink.org (Journal)
Founding editor of JewThink: Jewish Writing For and About Britain
Jul 2020
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Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member) - Liverpool University Press (Publisher)
Editor of the first book series dedicated to Stanley Kubrick.
Jul 2020
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member) - Bangor's Jewish History
Talk for community leaders via the Jewish Small Communities Network
27 May 2020
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker) - Karel (Charles) Lek, MBE, RCA
Obituary for the Jewish painter who lived in North Wales.
8 May 2020
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - 75 Years of Dee Street – the history of the Aberdeen Jewish Community
Talk via Zoom in aid of the Aberdeen Synagogue Roof Fund. There were 55 different screens in attendance at the highest point plus 16 watched it on Youtube. We had 74 individual places sold from 68 different homes, including the United States.
28 Apr 2020
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Activity: Invited talk (Speaker) - Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Documentaries
Curation of a playlist for Learning on Screen
Apr 2020
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Rutgers University Press (Publisher)
Endorsement for James Fenwick's book Stanley Kubrick Produces
Mar 2020
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member) - Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick, by Maarten Coëgnarts
30 Jan 2020
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Holocaust Memorial Day
Annual Holocaust Memorial Day remembrance service which includes local schools, members of the public, and Jewish community
24 Jan 2020
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor) - Kubrick's Universe: The Stanley Kubrick Podcast
Interview with myself and Robert Kolker about our book Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film
2020 →
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
2019
- Film and Midrash
In Jewish culture, the Midrash, the commentary is a central instrument to understand the Bible, Talmud or the Kabbalah. The feature films that deal with Jewish culture are a visual Midrash about Jewish Life, Tradition and Texts. The “intertextuality” in literary studies has shown how texts in other writings can lead a second life in form of connotations or quotations. This is exactly what we can see in the films that use the texts and elements of Jewish tradition and transform them into visualizations.
We can discover that in many films the Jewish references are by no means just an accessory. The movies represent in an intertextual and intervisual way a thoroughly modern commentary and have coined the image of Judaism in popular culture – film as a modern form of Midrash. Films are to be considered as a primary source like a Midrash or other texts. They, too, comment on elements of tradition, reinterpret biblical figures or develop a Jewish counter-history. They are modern commentaries on Jewish culture and Jewish life, but also shape the public image of Judaism. Thus it is very important to contextualize these films and to analyze their cultural contexts and how they present Jewish sources.
10 Dec 2019 – 11 Dec 2019
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Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Stanley Kubrick: Midrashic Moviemaker
10 Dec 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker) - Llandudno's Jewish History Walk
Join us to discover the rich history of Llandudno's Jewish community - the businesses, the places of worship, the hotels and guesthouses, the grand weddings and society events. Free event. 32 participants.
8 Dec 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor) - Post-film Q&A about Solomon and Gaenor
A Q&A at Pontio with Bethan Eames, Welsh Language Associate Director, Solomon & Geanor as part of the UK Jewish Film Festival 2019.
8 Dec 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Llandudno's Jewish Community Memory Session
What are your memories of Llandudno's Jewish community? Did you shop in one of the many Llandudno businesses run by Jewish people, such as Wartski's or Lazar's, or did you work there perhaps? Did you worship at the synagogue or maybe work in a kosher guesthouse?
Drop in any time during the day and share your memories, bring photographs and memorabilia as we build up our knowledge of Llandudno's fascinating Jewish community
We'll be using what you share with us to develop a package of walks, talks, leaflets and apps.
This was a free community outreach event open to the public. XX participants.
5 Dec 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor) - The Secret Jewish History of Llandudno
A talk as part of a series of lectures offered by the university to coincide with the first installment of the Winter Light event.
16 Nov 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Exhibition of The Jewish History of Bangor invited to Welsh Assembly
Our ESRC IAA funded exhibition has been invited to the Welsh Assembly by Jane Hutt, AM, Deputy Minister and Chief Whip
Summary: Preserving cultural heritage and raising awareness of Jewish life in Bangor.
Underpinning research: Research into the history of Jews in North Wales.
Beneficiaries: Members of the Welsh Assembly and the Welsh Assembly Government, as well as members of the public.
11 Nov 2019 – 18 Nov 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor) - Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of HIs Final Film
Episode 29 : The co-authors of a new book called, EYES WIDE SHUT Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film, have created an archeology of the film from its origin to its creation and beyond.
Robert P. Kolker is Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, and taught cinema studies for almost 50 years. He is the author of A Cinema of Loneliness, The Altering Eye, Film, Form, and Culture, The Extraordinary Image: Welles, Hitchcock, Kubrick and the Reimagination of Cinema. His current project is Triumph Over Containment: American Film in the 1950s.
Nathan Abrams is Professor in Film at Bangor University in Wales. He is founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal, as well as the author of The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema and Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual.
Using new interviews conducted with key cast and crew members and studying archive material at the Stanley Kubrick Archive, the authors have managed to create not only a timeline of the project but an appreciation of the film and its director.
We spoke with Robert and Nathan in October 2019.
9 Nov 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The Vietnam War on Film, by David Luhrssen
7 Nov 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Solomon & Gaenor’s anniversary is a chance to re-examine a dark era in Wales’ Jewish past
28 Oct 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - By Royal Appointment: The Jews of North Wales
26 Oct 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - The Jews of Bangor
Lecture
22 Oct 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - We're still seeing Jewish clues in Kubrick's work
19 Sep 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut is an erotic drama film released in 1999, the final feature Stanley Kubrick completed before he died that same year at the age of 70.
Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), it depicts the revelation of extra-marital fantasies by a woman to her husband in an ostensibly happy marriage. One might be inclined to speculate that, over the course of his career, Kubrick was working his way to an investigation of female desire by first tackling less daunting topics in earlier works: war, outer space, ‘ultraviolence’ and horror!
Starring the then-still-married actors Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, Eyes Wide Shut presents dark motifs of secrecy, jealousy and sexual obsession, although Kubrick intended the film as a “hopeful” story about commitment and monogamous fidelity. The title is allegedly a reference to remarks made by Benjamin Franklin: “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards” – a shorthand for a pragmatic mentality in contemplating a spouse’s inner life.
The film initially provoked strong negative reactions in some critics; most notoriously The New Yorker film writer Pauline Kael emerged from retirement to condemn the film as “a piece of crap.” Despite this, Eyes Wide Shut has gained a huge international cult following, going on to earn nearly 100 million dollars in profit, making it the most commercially successful film Kubrick ever made.
In this event, to mark the publication of his new book, Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film, Professor Nathan Abrams will discuss with Mary Wild the significance of Eyes Wide Shut twenty years on, reflecting upon the protracted period during which the film was made, the outraged response it eventually elicited, and possible psychoanalytic interpretations of the director’s recurring themes that, in a present-day appraisal, stand the test of time.
11 Sep 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Stanley Kubrick and Jewish History
3 Sep 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Stanley Kubrick, Food and Film
31 Aug 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - The Secret Jewish History of Death Wish
26 Aug 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Being Jewish in Wales podcast
A panel of three experts on the Jewish community in Wales. So join the audience as we experience some of that history through the lives of one particular family; find out how you can go on a walking tour of the Jewish community that no longer exist in Bangor by using an app on your phone; and hear how one particular project is making sure that the heritage and stories of the Jewish people in Wales are recorded for posterity.
8 Aug 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Eyes Wide Shut återupptäckt podcast
Kubricks sista film har med åren omvärderats och Robert Kolker och Nathan Abrams har skrivit den kanske definitiva boken om Eyes wide shut och de teman som Kubrick utforskar i den. Hierarkier, sex, pengar. Har alla människor ett pris, kan alla bli köpta?
1 Aug 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Podcast: A Modern Kabbalah
Open the Podcast Doors Hal, episode 140
23 Jul 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - 'From Holyhead to Wrexham', academic in bid to save north Wales’ Jewish heritage
19 Jul 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Kubrick's photojournalism/photography
18 Jul 2019
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Stanley Kubrick, Life and Legacy
Talk about Kubrick's photojournalism and photography
18 Jul 2019
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Twenty Years since Eyes Wide Shut
16 Jul 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Why is Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ his most Jewish film?
Born of Jewish parents and brought up in New York, Kubrick famously directed films like 2001 a Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange.
His final film Eyes Wide Shut is based on a Jewish novella, but seemingly excludes nearly all Jewish references.
Take a seat with me in the audience at Manchester Limmud 2019 as Professor Nathan Abrams intrigues us to see why it’s Kubrick’s most Jewish film.
16 Jul 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Stanley Kubrick, Life and Legacy
Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), one of the greatest filmmakers of the last century, once claimed: “I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don't try to fly too high’, or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings’.” The aim of the workshop “Stanley Kubrick, Life and Legacy”, hosted by the Lorentz Center, Leiden, on 15-19 July 2019, is to ascertain the current state of Kubrick Studies and what the future direction of research looks like. The workshop will bring together established and junior academics, postgraduates, artists and archivists, to discuss and debate the methodologies and approaches used to study and interpret Kubrick’s career. More importantly, we want to establish what it is that remains unknown about Kubrick and how we can work together collectively to fully understand the range of industrial, social, cultural, and artistic contexts in which he worked.
Twenty years have passed since Kubrick’s death in 1999 and the release of his last film, Eyes Wide Shut. This workshop will be an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of Kubrick’s life and legacy, but also a chance to move beyond the confines of previous research methodologies. We will consider the impact of the Stanley Kubrick Archive and how they have changed the landscape of Kubrick Studies, as well as what the broader field of film studies can learn from the work undertaken. However, our endeavor is interdisciplinary, with the aim of establishing a mutual and permanent Kubrick community and a cohesive plan of research for the next five to ten years. Invited to participate are not only Kubrick scholars, but also academics from the fields of history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, musicology, linguistics, adaptation studies, as well as Kubrick’s collaborators, archivists shaping his legacy in museums around the globe, and artists reinterpreting his work for audiences. It is our hope that this diverse community will widen our horizons and unveil new landscapes.
Kubrick is a unique case in film history and theory. The paucity of information about his method of work and unrealized projects and, generally, about his biography, has been supplanted by a vast collection of materials stored at the Stanley Kubrick Archive, University of the Arts, London, one of the largest public archives of a filmmaker in the world, at over 800 linear metres. Since the opening of the Archive in 2007, scores of scholars and fans have, published articles, essays and books, based either on their first-hand researches, or on other authors’ historical work. This new spring in Kubrick studies has brought unexpected, often fascinating findings, as well as heated debate among scholars about the significance of some sources, and their use or misuse.
The workshop is structured to incorporate key themes, to include methodological approaches, the Stanley Kubrick Archive, reception, fandom, influence, distribution, the “unknown” Kubrick, unmade films, and the future of Kubrick Studies. The intention is that, by the end of the workshop, delegates will have collaborated on establishing the groundwork for (a) a research plan/agenda for future Kubrick Studies; (b) a publication plan for a series of outputs (which may include an edited collection, methodological papers, a special issue of an academic journal and an expanded, revised and updated Kubrick bibliography); (c) plans for future public-facing activities; and (d) a Kubrick Scholars Network.
15 Jul 2019 – 19 Jul 2019
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser) - We’re still finding Jewish clues in Kubrick’s work 20 years after his last film
11 Jul 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The Secret Jewish History Of The Tour De France
8 Jul 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Book launch: Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film
Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains complex and visually arresting. This talk explores the ambitious set design and creative process behind the director's final film.
2 Jul 2019
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Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Chernobyl's Jewish history
21 Jun 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Review of The Shining by K.J. Donnelly
20 Jun 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The Secret Jewish History Of Cricket
7 Jun 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The Elusive Jewishness of “Eyes Wide Shut” — Stanley Kubrick’s Final Film
5 Jun 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Jews and Jewish Religion in Western Postwar Fiction Film
27 May 2019 – 28 May 2019
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker) - Jews and Jewish Religion in Western Postwar Fiction Film
27 May 2019
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - The Secret Jewish History of Alien
24 May 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - 40 Years of Alien
Alien has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Conceived primarily to cash in on the popularity of science-fiction films in the late 1970s, directed by a person known for making adverts (Ridley Scott) and starring an unknown actor in the lead role (Sigourney Weaver), it transcended its humble origins to frighten and disturb audiences on its initial release. Its success has led to three direct sequels, two prequels, one ‘mashup’ franchise, a series of comic books, graphic novels, novelisations and games, and has an enormous and devoted fanbase. For forty years, Alien (and its progeny) has animated debate and discussion among critics and academics from a wide variety of disciplines and methodological perspectives.
Hosted by the Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies at Bangor University, this symposium proposes to bring together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore Alien forty years since its release, debate its legacy and consider its position within visual culture.
23 May 2019 – 24 May 2019
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Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser) - Q&A with Jan Harlan
18 May 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor) - Is Robert DeNiro’s New Ad Complicit In The Assimilation Of Bagels?
15 May 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Talk about Passover / Sgwrs am Basg
29 Apr 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor) - Interview about Wayne Hennessy and ignorance of Nazism
17 Apr 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview with The Washington Post about Norman Podhoretz
10 Apr 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Purdue University
Invited to deliver a lecture and to introduce a class.
8 Apr 2019 – 9 Apr 2019
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution (Visiting researcher) - Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual
The Ben and Louise Klatch Jewish Arts Series annual lecture co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, Film and Video Studies, and the Department of English
8 Apr 2019
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - British Jews Go Pop
4 Apr 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Podcast of my talk 'Treyf Jews?: Jewish Gangsters in McMafia and Peaky Blinders'
4 Apr 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Treyf Jews?: Jewish Gangsters in McMafia and Peaky Blinders
4 Apr 2019
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Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Interview with Jason Mohammed about paternity
2 Apr 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Stanley Kubrick, Psychoanalysis and Jewishness
tanley Kubrick’s status as Genius Provocateur remains unparalleled 20 years after his death.
He mastered diverse genres with an unflinchingly beautiful cinematography, wicked sense of irony, philosophical depth, and soul-stirring music.
Building on a raw talent for photography and fixating on the finest details of image construction, Kubrick assumed total control over all painstaking aspects of adapting literary works into legendary cinematic events. With every new release, a pattern formed: first the outrage from established critics at the director’s use of violence and/or experimental techniques, then an international cult following of fans who connected to Kubrick’s daring vision. He invested heavily in the unconscious emotional response of his audience, and was fundamentally interested in exploring the paradoxes of human morality.
In this event, Mary Wild engages Professor Nathan Abrams in conversation, focusing on the central functions of Jewishness and psychoanalysis that shaped Kubrick’s auteurial preoccupations relating to themes such as war, outer space, masculinity, madness, and the mysteries of marital eroticism. Bespoke video montages will illustrate iconic moments in the Kubrickian filmography; questions and group discussion welcome.
Organised by The Jewish Historical Society of England as part of Jewish History Month.
31 Mar 2019
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Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Stanley Kubrick, Psychoanalysis and Jewishness: Mary Wild in conversation with Nathan Abrams
Stanley Kubrick's status as Genius Provocateur remains unparalleled 20 years after his death; he mastered diverse genres with an unflinchingly beautiful cinematography, wicked sense of irony, philosophical depth, and soul-stirring music. Building on a raw talent for photography and fixating on the finest details of image construction, Kubrick assumed total control over all painstaking aspects of adapting literary works into legendary cinematic events. With every new release, a pattern formed: first the outrage from established critics at the director's use of violence and/or experimental techniques, then an international cult following of fans who connected to Kubrick's daring vision. He invested heavily in the unconscious emotional response of his audience, and was fundamentally interested in exploring the paradoxes of human morality. In this event, Mary Wild engages Professor Nathan Abrams in conversation, focusing on the central functions of Jewishness and psychoanalysis that shaped Kubrick's auteurial preoccupations relating to themes such as war, outer space, masculinity, madness, and the mysteries of marital eroticism. Bespoke video montages will illustrate iconic moments in the Kubrickian filmography; questions and group discussion welcome.
31 Mar 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Oy Story
A blog about Toy Story.
26 Mar 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - It’s Bangor and maps as Welsh Jewish archive goes on display
25 Mar 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - British Jewish Television Humour
Professor Michael Berkowitz of University College London and Professor Nathan Abrams of Bangor University will discuss the history of Jewish humour on British television. They will consider such comic talents as Marks and Gran, the Carry On team, Peter Sellers, Marty Feldman, Warren Mitchell and Sacha Baron-Cohen. The talk will be illustrated with clips.
21 Mar 2019
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Interview with Aled Hughes
An interview about the Jewish History of Bangor map, app and exhibition.
18 Mar 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Bangor celebrates Jewish community with app and map
An app, exhibition and a map is being launched to reveal more about one Welsh community's links with Jewish history.
17 Mar 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The Jews of Bangor / Hanes Iddewon ym Mangor
A exhibtion of the history of Jews in Bangor
17 Mar 2019 – 26 Apr 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor) - Interview on Newyddion 9
An interview about the Jewish History of Bangor map, app and exhibition.
16 Mar 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview on Post Cyntaf
An item about the Jews of Bangor app, map and exhibition.
16 Mar 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Map, ap ac arddangosfa hanes 'cudd' Iddewiaeth ym Mangor
16 Mar 2019
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview on Heno
An interview about the Jewish History of Bangor map, app and exhibition.
14 Mar 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Bond, Kubrick a'r Iaith Gymraeg: Portread o'r Athro Nathan Abrams
Interview in Golwg Magazine
21 Feb 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - A history of entertaining our nation on screen
12 Feb 2019
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Big Screen, Little Screen: Jews in British Film and Television Industries
Launch event for Jewish History Month 2019
10 Feb 2019
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Interview about the CST report into antisemitic Google searches in Wales
2 Feb 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview about the report on antisemitic Google searches in Wales
2 Feb 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Soho Bites Episode 2 - Nathan Abrams and The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
Episode 2 of #SohoBites, a #SohoonScreen Podcast. Researching London's Soho in British film.
Episode 2 invited Professor of Film Professor Nathan Abrams of Bangor University to talk about The Small World of Sammy Lee (Ken Hughes, 1963). We discussed the importance of studying films in the British-Jewish context and the absence of defining 'Sammy Lee' (part of my own research)as a British Jewish / Soho immigrant film.
Feb 2019
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Holocaust Memorial Day 2019
Organised the annual service of remembrance for Holocaust Memorial Day featuring contributions from students, staff, schools, and local dignitaries.
28 Jan 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Organiser) - A report on antisemitic searches undermines the idea of Wales as a tolerant nation
15 Jan 2019
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Appointment to Gwynedd's Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education as a Jewish representative.
2019 →
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor) - Map: Hanes Yr Iddewon ym Mangor / A Jewish History of Bangor
Stories from the medieval city to the Second World War to walk and discover
2019
Activity: Other (Contributor)
2018
- Talk about Chanukah / Sgwrs am Chanwca
4 Dec 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor) - Burning Secret with Leon Vitali, Gerald Fried and Nathan Abrams Podcast
In this episode we talk about a recently discovered screenplay on July 15th this year that made the headlines.
This wasn't just any screenplay. It was a script penned by Stanley Kubrick and Paths of Glory co-writer Calder Willingham, over 62 years ago and it had only been discovered when one of Stanley's earliest collaborators, the composer Gerald Fried, brought it to the attention of Kubrick fans the world over.
The script is called Burning Secret and it's an adaptation of a 1913 novella by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, and it tells the story of a young boy who is seduced by a man in order to get to the boys' mother.
Thus far there have been three filmed versions of the original novella, the most recent being in 1988. The production was written and directed by Andrew Birkin, and it stars Klaus Maria Brandauer, David Eberts, and the legendary Faye Dunaway.
But this particular treatment of the screenplay, by Kubrick and Willingham, was discovered by our friend, Nathan Abrams, a professor in Film Studies at Bangor University, while he was just doing research for his new book about Stanley Kubrick.
Earlier in 2018, we had the pleasure of speaking with Stanley Kubrick’s long-time right-hand-man and good friend, Leon Vitali, incidentally, just a few days after this amazing news broke, so obviously we had to ask him for his take on what he knows about the screenplay.
17 Nov 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - 2OO1: Beyond 50 Podcast - Part 5
Jan Harlan introduces 2001: A Space Odyssey
13 Nov 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - 2OO1: Beyond 50 Podcast - Part 4
In this episode, The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society is proud to present, 2OO1: Beyond 50 - A day of talks, music, and art celebrating the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2OO1: A Space Odyssey, featuring experts and people who worked on the film and was presented by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies at Bangor University in Wales.
Our good friend, Professor Nathan Abrams organised this event, which took place on the 16th of June 2018.
This was a full day event and is being presented to you in a special five part series.
In part four we are airing a series of guests talking about their time working on 2001: A Space Odyssey over 50 years ago., hosted by Nathan and featuring key academics in conversation,
Audio Clips :
2OO1: A Space Odyssey - MGM / Stanley Kubrick Productions
Music :
The Blue Danube by Strauss
Kubrick 2OO1 by Victor Malloy (2001)
Production :
Hosted by Jason Furlong
Produced and edited by Stephen Rigg
Research by Stephen Rigg, Mark Lentz and James Marinaccio
Kubrick's Universe Theme composed, performed and produced by Jason Furlong
Links :
The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - Facebook Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/TSKAS/
The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - YouTube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRdeqrFNoOrYtWbxwR_GXPA
The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - Twitter Page : https://twitter.com/KubrickAS
Contact us : stephenrigg.skas@gmail.com
12 Nov 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Talks about Judaism at Ysgol Tryfan
12 Nov 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor) - 2OO1: Beyond 50 Podcast - Part 3
In this episode, The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society is proud to present, 2OO1: Beyond 50 - A day of talks, music, and art celebrating the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2OO1: A Space Odyssey, featuring experts and people who worked on the film and was presented by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies at Bangor University in Wales.
Our good friend, Professor Nathan Abrams organised this event, which took place on the 16th of June 2018.
This was a full day event and is being presented to you in a special five part series.
In part three we are airing a Film Symposium, hosted by Nathan and featuring key academics in conversation,
Audio Clips :
2OO1: A Space Odyssey - MGM / Stanley Kubrick Productions
Music :
The Blue Danube by Strauss
Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two) written by Harry Dacre and performed by Nat King Cole
Production :
Hosted by Jason Furlong
Produced and edited by Stephen Rigg
Research by Stephen Rigg, Mark Lentz and James Marinaccio
Kubrick's Universe Theme composed, performed and produced by Jason Furlong
Links :
The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - Facebook Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/TSKAS/
The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - YouTube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRdeqrFNoOrYtWbxwR_GXPA
The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - Twitter Page : https://twitter.com/KubrickAS
Contact us : stephenrigg.skas@gmail.com
9 Nov 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - 2OO1: Beyond 50 Podcast - Part 2
In this episode, The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society is proud to present, 2OO1: Beyond 50 - A day of talks, music, and art celebrating the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2OO1: A Space Odyssey, featuring experts and people who worked on the film and was presented by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies at Bangor University in Wales.
Our good friend, Professor Nathan Abrams organised this event, which took place on the 16th of June 2018.
This was a full day event and is being presented to you in a special five part series.
In part two we are airing Alternative Perspectives: a panel featuring experts on 2OO1's legacy beyond film, including psychology, artificial intelligence, evolutionary biology, and philosophy.
Audio Clips :
2OO1: A Space Odyssey - MGM / Stanley Kubrick Productions
Music :
The Blue Danube by Strauss
The World Tonight Theme - Youtube
Production :
Hosted by Jason Furlong
Produced and edited by Stephen Rigg
Research by Stephen Rigg, Mark Lentz and James Marinaccio
Kubrick's Universe Theme composed, performed and produced by Jason Furlong
Links :
The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - Facebook Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/TSKAS/
The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - YouTube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRdeqrFNoOrYtWbxwR_GXPA
The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - Twitter Page : https://twitter.com/KubrickAS
Contact us : stephenrigg.skas@gmail.com
7 Nov 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview about Roald Dahl and antisemitism
7 Nov 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - 2OO1: Beyond 50 Podcast - Part 1
In this episode, The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society is proud to present, 2OO1: Beyond 50 - A day of talks, music, and art celebrating the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2OO1: A Space Odyssey, featuring experts and people who worked on the film and was presented by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies at Bangor University in Wales.
Our good friend, Professor Nathan Abrams organised this event, which took place on the 16th of June 2018.
This was a full day event and now we will present it to you in a special five part series.
Here is the first part, with a brief event introduction by organiser, Nathan Abrams followed by an Introduction to 2OO1 by Piers Bizony, author of 2OO1: Filming the Future and The Making of Stanley Kubrick's 2OO1: A Space Odyssey.
Audio Clips :
2OO1: A Space Odyssey - MGM / Stanley Kubrick Productions
Music :
The Blue Danube by Strauss
Space Odyssey by The Byrds (1968)
Production :
Hosted by Jason Furlong
Produced and edited by Stephen Rigg
Research by Stephen Rigg, Mark Lentz and James Marinaccio
Kubrick's Universe Theme composed, performed and produced by Jason Furlong
Links :
The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - Facebook Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/TSKAS/
The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - YouTube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRdeqrFNoOrYtWbxwR_GXPA
The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - Twitter Page : https://twitter.com/KubrickAS
Contact us : stephenrigg.skas@gmail.com
6 Nov 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The Mechanical Mensch: Jewishness in A Clockwork Orange
2 Nov 2018
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - A Clockwork Orange
1 Nov 2018 – 2 Nov 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual
This illustrated lecture explores the life and work of legendary film director Stanley Kubrick and how he can be considered a New York Jewish Intellectual. Sponsored by the division of literature and languages. Free and open to the public.
29 Oct 2018
Links:
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker) - Reed College
Visit to Reed College to lecture and meet with students
27 Oct 2018 – 31 Oct 2018
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution (Visiting researcher) - Review of The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together, by Adam Nayman
Book review
25 Oct 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Quoted in Dalya Alberge, 'Stanley Kubrick never paid for my early work as a composer, childhood friend reveals', The Observer
21 Oct 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The History of the Jews of Upper Bangor
Walking tour of Upper Bangor's Jewish history led by Gareth Roberts of Menter Fachwen
21 Oct 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - ESRC IAA Showcase
'Walking Impact': Talk at Bangor University ESRC IAA showcase event
19 Oct 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker) - Brand Britain: Promoting and Marketing British food and drink inquiry - publications
Submission of written evidence to the Brand Britain inquiry (BFD0039)
10 Oct 2018
Links:
Activity: Consultancy (Consultant) - When it comes to Britain’s Jewish history, Wales is overlooked
5 Oct 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Contemporary British-Jewish Theatre Symposium
Delivering the paper, '"It was f***ing biblical, mate": The Maturity of British Television Drama'
1 Oct 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker) - How Jewish Was Stanley Kubrick?
19 Sep 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Quoted in 'Labour has created a mess and it's stuck in its mess'
I am quoted in article looking at Labour and antisemitism.
15 Sep 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Every party needs to tackle the problem of antisemitism – not just Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour
14 Sep 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Helynt gwrth-Semitiaeth Llafur
13 Sep 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Desert Island Books
9 Sep 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - 2001: A Space Odyssey -- 50th and Lost Script
This year is the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's seminal film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Nathan Abrams, Professor in Film, shows how Kubrick tapped into the countercultural spirit and explored New Age mysticism and the future destiny of humanity... and explains how he found Kubrick's lost screenplay.
8 Sep 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - 50 Years of 2001: A Space Odyssey & Kubrick's Lost Script
8 Sep 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Interview on Taro'r Post about antisemitism and the Labour Party
Discussion about antisemitism and the Labour Party.
5 Sep 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview about antisemitism and the Holocaust
3 Sep 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Jewish History Walk: Bangor City Centre
A guide-led walk around lower Bangor exploring the city's Jewish history to mark the European Days of Jewish Culture 2018 in collaboration with Menter Fachwen and the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage (AEPJ). This was funded by an ESRC IAA grant.
2 Sep 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Review of Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual in the Jerusalem Post Magazine
, "The power of the book as a whole...will be riveting reading for anyone who loves Kubrick's film."
24 Aug 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview on BBC Radio Wales about anti-Semitism, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.
Discussing anti-Semitism, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.
2 Aug 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview on BBC Radio Cymru about my discovery of the lost Kubrick screenplay.
Hanes sut daeth Nathan Abrams o hyd i sgript Stanley Kubrick 'Burning Secret'. Mae Nathan Abrams yn dod o Lundain yn wreiddiol ond ar ôl iddo fo ddechrau gweithio ym Mhrifysgol Bangor mi wnaeth o ddysgu Cymraeg. Darlithydd ffilmiau ydy o yn y Brifysgol a fo ysgrifennodd y llyfr 'Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual'. Doedd neb yn gwybod beth oedd wedi digwydd i sgript 'Burning Secret' nes i Nathan gael galwad ffôn annisgwyl.
31 Jul 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview on ABC Nightlife, Australian Radio about my discovery of the lost Kubrick screenplay.
Thought to be lost for the past 60 years, a screenplay for a film called Burning Secret has been discovered by leading 'Kubrick expert' Nathan Abrams, who will be our guest on your Friday nightlife.
27 Jul 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Introduction to screening of Dr. Strangelove
18 Jul 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Interview on BBC Wales about my discovery of the lost Kubrick screenplay.
Interview about my discovery of the lost Kubrick screenplay.
17 Jul 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview on BBC Radio Wales about my discovery of the lost Burning Secret screenplay
16 Jul 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview on BBC World Service about my discovery of the lost Burning Secret screenplay
16 Jul 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio about my discovery of the lost Kubrick screenplay.
Nathan Abrams, a film professor at Bangor University in Wales, had just completed a book about Kubrick when the son of one of the filmmaker's colleagues reached out to say he had a copy of a long-lost Kubrick script.
16 Jul 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview on TalkRADIO about my discovery of the lost Kubrick screenplay.
Interviewed about my discovery of the lost Burning Secret screenplay by Stanley Kubrick.
16 Jul 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview on The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 about my discovery of the lost Burning Secret Kubrick screenplay.
I was interviewed about my discovery of the lost Burning Secret screenplay.
16 Jul 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Lost Kubrick screenplay found 60 years on by Bangor professor
Article on BBC News website
16 Jul 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Kubrick, the enigmatic Jew
Feature article based on my book Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual
6 Jul 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - From Sartre to 'Shoah': The Cinematic Legacy of Legendary Jewish Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann
5 Jul 2018
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Book launch:
Launch of my book, Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual, in conjunction with the Stanley Kubrick Archive in London.
19 Jun 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - 2001: Beyond 50
A day of talks, music, art, and screening celebrating the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), featuring experts and people who worked on the film.
16 Jun 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Organiser) - 2001: Beyond 50
A day of talks, music, and an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), featuring experts and people who worked on the film.11.00am screening of 2001 for children/ schools.2.00pm Introduction by Piers Bizony, author of 2001: Filming the Future and 2001: A Space Odyssey.2.30pm Alternative perspectives: a panel featuring experts on 2001's legacy beyond film, including psychology, artificial intelligence, evolutionary biology, and philosophy and religion. Panellists: Prof. Robert Ward (Bangor), Prof. Guillaume Thierry (Bangor), Dr. Bill Teahan (Bangor), Mr. Eric Krasny (Bangor), Dr. Lawrence Ratna (Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health Trust) and Prof. Peter Wheeler (Liverpool John Moores). 4.00pm Coffee and opportunity to view an exhibition of creative student work inspired by 20014.30pm Film symposium: key academics in conversation, including Prof. Robert Kolker (Emeritus, University of Maryland), author of The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Prof. Ian Hunter (DMU), author of Cult Film as a Guide to Life, and Mr. Peter Kramer (UEA), author of BFI Classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. 5.30pm Concert of music from Kubrick's films by Bangor University Symphony Orchestra (Pritchard-Jones Hall, Main Arts Building)6.30pm Supper 7.30pm A panel of those who worked on 2001: Kubrick's producer and brother-in-law Jan Harlan; Kubrick assistant Tony Frewin, stills photographer Keith Hamshere, set/visual effects designer Joy Cuff, and make up and special effects artist, Colin Arthur.9pm screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey
16 Jun 2018
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Organiser) - Inspired by 2001
An exhibition of student work inspired by the film 2001: A Space Odyssey
16 Jun 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Organiser) - The Secret Jewish History of Watership Down
15 Jun 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview on Good Evening Wales about 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I was talking about 2001: A Space Odyssey.
14 Jun 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Book launch of Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual
To mark the publication of my new book, I participated in a question and answer session before a screening of A Clockwork Orange.
17 May 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - If...
I introduced If... (1968) as part of the mini film festival to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the events of May 1968.
4 May 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Review of Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellecctual
May 2018 issue of the Midwest Book Review:
"Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual" by Nathan Abrams (who is a professor of film studies at Bangor University in Wales, and the founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal) reexamines the director's work in context of his ethnic and cultural origins.
Focusing on several of Kubrick's key themes (including masculinity, ethical responsibility, and the nature of evil) "Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual" demonstrates how his films were in conversation with contemporary New York Jewish intellectuals who grappled with the same concerns. At the same time, it explores Kubrick's fraught relationship with his Jewish identity and his reluctance to be pegged as an ethnic director, manifest in his removal of Jewish references and characters from stories he adapted.
As Professor Abrams digs deep into rare Kubrick archives to reveal insights about the director's life and times, film scholar he also provides a nuanced account of Kubrick's cinematic artistry. Each individual chapter comprising "Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual" offers a detailed analysis of one of Kubrick's major films, including Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut.
Critique: An impressive work of original scholarship, "Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual" presents an exceptionally informative study of one of the twentieth century's most renowned and yet misunderstood film directors. Enhanced with the additional inclusion of twenty-eight pages of Notes, a ten page Select Bibliography, and a thirteen page Index, "Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual" is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library Cinematic History collections in general, and Stanley Kubrick supplemental studies lists in particular. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of film students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that "Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $31.60).
May 2018
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Book Launch in conjunction with UK Jewish Film at JW3
To mark the publication of his new book, Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual, Nathan Abrams, Professor of Film Studies at Bangor University, was interviewed by Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum, Dean of LSJS, about the Jewish and midrashic dimensions of such classics as 2001, A Clockwork Orange, and The Shining. The talk was illustrated with film clips.
26 Apr 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Jewish Views Podcast
Interview with the Jewish News Podcast about my new book.
26 Apr 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Review of Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, by Michael Benson
26 Apr 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Why ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Was Really A Jewish Horror Movie
12 Apr 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The Secret Jewish History of 2001
9 Apr 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Appearance on Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol
I and my family were featured on Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol discussing how we celebrate the Jewish festival of Passover.
1 Apr 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Interview on Post Cyntaf
I was interviewed this morning on Post Cyntaf about the allegations of anti-Semitism surrounding Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party from the perspective of a member of the Jewish community in Wales.
27 Mar 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - British Jewish Contemporary Cultures
The first international conference on British Jewish Contemporary Cultures, it explored British Jewish contemporary cultures in global and comparative settings, as well as in terms of imperial, postcolonial and transnational narratives. The aim of the conference was to tease out the tension between a transcultural British Jewish Studies and the specificity of the Jewish experience in Britain with increasing theoretical and methodological complexity. Topics included: writing British Jewishness, images of British Jewishness in film and television, gender, sexuality, visual images (art, graphic novels), music, performing Jewishness, theatre and drama, poetry, Wales and Scotland, the Holocaust, Israel, and experiences of immigration and emigration.
26 Mar 2018 – 27 Mar 2018
Links:
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker) - Talk on Passover
A talk about the Jewish festival of Passover at Cylch Y Garnedd nursery.
23 Mar 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor) - Kubrick, The Jewish Director: The Theme Uniting His Films
Article in The New European newspaper, pp. 44-45.
22 Mar 2018 – 28 Mar 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Stanley Kubrick’s films all had one thing in common: Jewishness
12 Mar 2018
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - On British TV, A Renaissance For Jewish Characters
11 Mar 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Jews and Jokers: Stanley Kubrick's 'Full Metal Jacket'
Talk delivered at Orensundslimmud 2018 in Malmo, Sweden
4 Mar 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - The Name is Bond, Ya'acov Bond.
Talk about the Jewish origins of James Bond at Orensundslimmud, Malmo, Sweden.
4 Mar 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Review of 'Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America', by Steven J. Ross
15 Feb 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - How does Plaid Cymru appeal to an incomer like me?
Opinion piece for Nation.Cymru
12 Feb 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - 2001: Stanley Kubrick, Jewishness and the Holocaust
Lecture at Mannchester Limmud, a one-day adult education conference.
4 Feb 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Appearance on BBC Radio Cymru 'Bwrw Golwg'
Discussion about antisemitism in Britain (in Welsh).
4 Feb 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Holocaust Memorial Day
I co-organised (with Dyfrig Jones) a short service to commemorate the Holocaust, featuring contributions from local schools, members of the community, the university, civic dignitaries, the local MP and AM, as part of the nationwide commemoration of the Holocaust.
26 Jan 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor) - Talk on Judaism at Ysgol Tryfan
I talked about being Jewish in Wales to Year 10s.
18 Jan 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor) - Northern Jewish Studies Partner Research Collaboration Meeting
Meeting with select partners from the Northern Jewish Studies Partnership to discuss the '50 Jewish Objects' project.
9 Jan 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker) - Editorial Board for Jewish Women’s Archive’s online Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (http://jwa.org/encyclopedia).
I have been appointed to the editorial board of a prestigious encyclopedia for Jewish History.
2018 →
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor) - Elected to the Council of the Jewish Historical Society of England
2018
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor) - Journal of Jewish Identities (Journal)
Peer review of journal article
2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member) - Peer Reviewer, British Academy Visiting Fellowships
Peer reviewing applications to the British Academy Visiting Fellowship scheme
2018
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor) - Review of Stanley Kubrick New York Jewish Intellectual
The following review appeared in Donovan's Literary Services:
Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual is a multifaceted and in-depth biographical survey of a film director whose approach produced some of the world's greatest productions.
While readers might anticipate that this survey will focus on his techniques, Nathan Abrams, a professor of film studies in Wales, takes a different approach by tracing his roots in New York as a member of the Jewish community and considering Kubrick's works in light of his cultural influences and background.
The result discusses key themes in his pictures, how they reflected New York Jewish intellectual concerns of the times, and how his Jewish identity ultimately influenced the creation of some of the most engrossing films of his era.
No film or Jewish history holding should be without this different approach to Kubrick's film magic.
2018
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Reviews of Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual
My book has received the following reviews since its publication this month:
"Stanley Kubrick is outstanding in its approach and the material it covers. As a pioneer work, anyone investigating Kubrick in the future would not be able to overlook Abrams' findings and arguments."
--Marat Grinberg, coeditor of Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen
"With imagination and intellectual rigor, using archival research and close readings of the films, Nathan Abrams explores Stanley Kubrick’s relationship with his Jewishness in this exceptionally readable and convincing book."
--Robert P. Kolker, author of The Extraordinary Image
"Brilliantly documents and analyzes Kubrick's Jewish sensibility by locating him in the lifelong context of his Jewish cultural and intellectual milieu. Abrams breaks acres of new ground. Essential reading."
--Geoffrey Cocks, author of The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust
“A must-read for anyone interested in Kubrick, this original and provocative study combines wonderfully perceptive film analyses with extensive archival research and a dazzling display of cultural-historical and biographical knowledge.”
--Peter Krämer, author of BFI Film Classics on Dr. Strangelove and 2001: A Space Odyssey
"Written by Nathan Abrams, a superstar of contemporary Kubrick studies, this wonderfully knowledgeable and scholarly account of the great director’s Jewishness is the most original film book I’ve read for many years."
--I.Q. Hunter, author of Cult Film as a Guide to Life: Fandom, Adaptation, and Identity
"[A] pathbreaking new book [...] As he digs deep into rare Kubrick archives to reveal insights about the director’s life and times, film scholar Nathan Abrams also provides a nuanced account of Kubrick’s cinematic artistry. Each chapter offers a detailed analysis of one of Kubrick’s major films, including Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut. Stanley Kubrick thus presents an illuminating look at one of the twentieth century’s most renowned and yet misunderstood directors."
David Mikics -- Tablet Magazine (3 April 2018)
"In Nathan Abrams’s Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual, [an] exploration of the contradictions of Kubrick’s relation to Jewish identity, the film is seen through the lens of Biblical allusion and Kabbalistic interpretation."
Geoffrey O'Brien -- Wall Street Journal (12 April 2018)
2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Series Editor for Jews, Judaism, and the Arts
I have been appointed as the series editor for film for a new book series entitled Jews, Judaism, and the Arts
2018
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor) - Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies (Journal)
Peer review of article submission
2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member)
2017
- Angen rhywbeth 'parhaol' i nodi hanes Iddewig Cymru/ Call for permanent museum to mark Welsh Jewish heritage
Interviewed for an article about Welsh Jewish life and history
14 Dec 2017
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Interviewee) - Appearance on Newyddion 9
Interviewed for a programme about the Jewish communities in Wales.
13 Dec 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Interviewee) - Review of The Philosophical Hitchcok
Book reivew.
30 Nov 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Jews and Jewishness in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Talk to the Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue Film Club
8 Nov 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - Traces
Organized this workshop in conjunction with The Pears Institute, Birkbeck, University of London.
8 Nov 2017
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Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker) - Traces
Paper delivered at workshop: 'Life Functions Terminated': Stanley Kubrick, IBM and the Holocaust
8 Nov 2017
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker) - Why Holocaust jokes can only be told by a Jewish comedian
Article for The Conversation
8 Nov 2017
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - 200 Years of Jewish Communities in Scotland: Inverness
Bicentenary History Talks: Exploring Scotland’s smaller Jewish Communities
To mark the Bicentenary of Jewish Communities in Scotland, I discussed the history of the Inverness Jewish Community.
11 Sep 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - 200 Years of Jewish Communities in Scotland: Aberdeen
Bicentenary History Talks: Exploring Scotland’s smaller Jewish Communities
To mark the Bicentenary of Jewish Communities in Scotland, I discussed the history of the Aberdeen Jewish Community. The Lord Provost of Aberdeen was in attendance.
10 Sep 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - 200 Years of Jewish Communities in Scotland: Dundee
Bicentenary History Talks: Exploring Scotland’s smaller Jewish Communities
To mark the Bicentenary of Jewish Communities in Scotland, I discussed the history of the Dundee Jewish Community.
10 Sep 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor) - The Secret Jewish History of Nuclear War Movies
Article for the forward.com
14 Aug 2017
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Destination Unknown
Question and answer session with producer Llion Roberts.
1 Jul 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Participant) - Was ‘Full Metal Jacket’ Stanley Kubrick’s Stealth Holocaust Movie?
Article on the Forward.com website
27 Jun 2017
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Why The Transformers Movies Are Really Stories Of Jewish Resilience and Adaptability
Article for the forward.com website
20 Jun 2017
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Interviewee) - The Secret Jewish Origins of Wonder Woman
Media article
11 Jun 2017
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - We all love Annie Hall 40 years on
27 Apr 2017
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Narrative Spaces in Scottish Jewish Culture
I presented a paper entitled "Tales from Wales: Fiction Films Exploring the Welsh Jewish Experience" at the invite-only colloquium, "Narrative Spaces in Scottish Jewish Culture: A Comparative Perspective," April 23-24, 2017, University of Glasgow.
24 Apr 2017
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Participant) - Barbra Streisand at 75
20 Apr 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - What is life like for Jewish people in Wales today?
Quoted extensively in the above article by How Silk
18 Feb 2017
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Interviewee) - Introduction of a screening of Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.
A 30-minute public introduction to the film Full Metal Jacket with a particular emphasis on how Jewishness and the Holocaust resonated in the film.
18 Jan 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker) - Reading Between the Lines
I officially opened this exhibition of Jenni Steele's work. Jenni is a PhD student at Bangor.
15 Jan 2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Speaker)
2016
- Behind the X-Men: Jews, gender and sexuality
Panel discussion on X-Men in conjunction with Keshet: a national organization that works for full LGBTQ equality and inclusion in Jewish life.
27 Dec 2016
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker) - Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film and Television
27 Dec 2016
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Lecturer) - The Small World of Sammy Lee
Discussing this 1963 film in partnership with UK Jewish Film.
27 Dec 2016
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker) - Chanukah
A talk to 4-7 year old school children about the Jewish festival of Chanukah.
1 Dec 2016
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Speaker) - Kubrick's Midrash: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Talk at Liverpool Day Limmud, a regional offshoot of the premier Jewish informal education conference in the world.
6 Nov 2016
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker) - Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
Book review in long-established Jewish literary journal for wide readership
Nov 2016
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film and Television
Talk given to the B'nai Brith Cheshire Unity Lodge
9 Oct 2016
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Speaker) - The American New Wave: A Retrospective
An international event to bring together scholars to discuss new perspectives on The American New Wave fifty years since it began. We have been awarded £2300 from the British Association for American Studies to contribute to expenses for our keynote speaker from the United States, as well as funding postgraduate participation in the conference.
Aug 2016 – 6 Jul 2017
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Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser) - Midrash in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Nathan Abrams explores Jewish interpretations of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey at The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco to coincide with its hosting of the Kubrick Exhibition.
15 Jul 2016
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker) - Jewish Perspectives on Kubrick
Three of the foremost scholars on Kubrick examine his films through a Jewish lens, with Nathan Abrams (The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jews and Jewishness in Contemporary Cinema), Dr Geoffrey Cocks (The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History and the Holocaust), and Dr Marat Grinberg (Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen). Panel moderated by The CJM's Associate Director of Public Programs, Gravity Goldberg.
14 Jul 2016
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Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Member) - Screening of Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem followed by Q&A
30 Jun 2016
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Participant) - Membership of AHRC peer review college
Membership of AHRC peer review college
2016 →
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Member)
2015
- Review of The New Jew in Film in Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Review of The New Jew in Film by Aharon Feuerstein, The Hebrew University: "The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema is an expression of the relatively new and growing interest in the way cinema presents Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness. What is unique about this book is its breadth—unlike many books on the subject, it does not limit itself to any niche or narrow issue but rather references more than 300 films from every existing genre. Its emphasis is on cinema
worldwide from the last two decades (excluding, however, the Israeli film industry)... The New Jew in Film makes a real contribution to that discussion [of discussing the Jewish image in cinema]. with its clear and challenging arguments, its genre-crossing analysis, and its numerous detailed examples that provide a springboard for further research." (pp. 298-299.)
2015
Activity: Other (Recipient) - Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (Journal)
2015
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member)
2014
- Screenplay consultant
Advised on issues relating to Jewish identity and the Holocaust for the TV programme WPC56, Series 3.
Sep 2014
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Advisor)
2013
- Seeing and Blindness: Eyes in the Work of Stanley Kubrick
21 Jun 2013
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)
4
- Shaken and Stirred: The Jewish Origins and Themes of James Bond
Director Sam Mendes' 007 is more personal than all previous Bonds: we have an origin story, identity crises and a plethora of biblical imagery. From the Jew who inspired Flemming's Bond - Sidney Reilly, born Shlomo Rosenblum - to the latest movie in the franchise, this presentation uncovers the disturbing Jewish themes of the spy of spies.
29 Feb 4
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor)
Projects
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Comparison of Minority Cultural, Heritage and Language Experiences: Jews in Wales and Ireland
01/11/2023 – 17/08/2024 (Finished)
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KESS II MRes with Royal Commission AHM Wales BUK2234
01/02/2023 – 31/03/2024 (Finished)
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KESS II East MRes with Trash Free Trails BUK2E094
01/01/2023 – 31/03/2024 (Finished)
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KESS II MRes with Royal Commission AHM Wales BUK2E097
01/01/2023 – 31/03/2024 (Finished)
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Attitudes towards Jews in Wales
01/09/2021 – 31/05/2023 (Finished)
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01/06/2021 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)
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British-Israeli Cultural Images in Comparative Perspective
01/04/2020 – 31/08/2020 (Finished)
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British-Israeli Cultural Images in Comparative Perspective
01/04/2020 – 30/10/2024 (Active)
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The Jews of Bangor / Hanes Yr Iddewon Ym Mangor an: Adding to the App
01/11/2019 – 30/04/2021 (Finished)