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Dr Nathan Abrams
Research
Research Specialisms
American Cinema and Hollywood Film and American History The Holocaust on Film Jewish Americans in Film
Previous Projects
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Current research
American Cinema and Hollywood Film and American History The Holocaust on Film Jewish Americans in Film
Publications
Studying Film. Co-authored: Nathan Abrams, Ian Bell, Jan Udris. London: Arnold, 2001. ARTICLES ‘“I\'ll have whatever she’s having”: Jews, Food, and Film’ in Reel Food, ed. Anne Bowers (New York and London: Routledge, 2004). “Reel Kashrut”: Jewish Food in Film’, The Jewish Quarterly 50:1 (Spring 2003): 53-55. ‘“Are You Still You?”: Memory, Identity, and Self-Positioning Total Recall’, Film and Philosophy VII (2003): 48-59. ‘Celebrating Freedom: American Judaism and the Cold War’ in New Voices in Jewish Thought: Vol. III, ed. Alex Gordon (London: New Voices Publications, 2000): 5-23. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Companion to Modern Jewish Culture. Ed. Glenda Abramson. Surrey: Curzon Press, forthcoming. Entries Contributed: Cinema Industry, Steven Spielberg. Encyclopedia of American Studies. Ed. George Kurian, Miles Orvell, Johnnella Butler, and Jay Mechling. Grolier Publishing, 2001. Entries Contributed: Film and the Construction of Identity, Jewish Americans: An Overview, Jewish Americans in Film and Theater, Paul Robeson. The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, ed. Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast, 5 Vols. Farmington Hills, Michigan: St. James Press, 1999. Entries Contributed: The Hollywood Ten. BOOK REVIEWS Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting by J. Hoberman and Jeffrey Shandler. Jewish Culture and History (forthcoming). American film and politics from Reagan to Bush Jr ed. Philip John Davies and Paul Wells. American Studies Today (forthcoming). Hollywood and Antisemitism: A Cultural History up to World War II by Steven Carr. Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies 25:5 (September 2002): 867-868. While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust by Jeffrey Shandler. Scope: an on- line journal of film studies (November 2001), http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/index.htm. Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage, Film, and Television by Brenda Murphy. Journal of American Studies 35:1 (2001): 174-175. The Terminator by Sean French. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 17:2 (June 1997): 287-288. ‘Stars’, The Phoenix Cinema Film Club, 28th November 2002. INVITED LECTURES ‘Focus on Science Fiction’. The Phoenix Cinema, London, 8th June 2003. ‘The Pianist’. The Phoenix Cinema, London, 30th March 2003. ‘Focus on Bergman’. The Phoenix Cinema, London, 29th September 2002. ‘Focus on American Gothic’. The Phoenix Cinema, London, 30th June 2002. ‘Re-presenting the Past: History on Film’. North London Collegiate School, 15th January 2002. ‘Blaxploitation’, The Phoenix Cinema, London, 21st October 2001. ‘Focus on the MacGuffin’. The Phoenix Cinema, London, 10th June 2001. ‘Contemporary American society in Film: David Fincher’s Fight Club’. The FILMSTOCK International Film Festival, Luton, 4th June 2001. ‘The Jewish Dream Factory: Jews and the American Film Industry’. The Jewish Historical Society, Leeds, 2nd April 2001. ‘The Holocaust on Film’. The London Jewish Cultural Centre, 2nd February 2001. OTHER ‘Designer Ethnicity”, The Jewish Quarterly (Spring 2004): 9-13. ‘“My mother was trying to kill us with fat”: Food, culture, and sex in Jewish film’, Parkes Institute Seminar, University of Southampton, 3rd May 2004. ‘“Reel Kashrut”: Jewish Food in Film’, The Jewish Quarterly 50:1 (Spring 2003): 53-55. ‘“Are you still you?”: Memory, Identity, and Self-Positioning in Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall’. American Studies Research Seminar, The University of Birmingham, 20th January 1997. ‘The History of HUAC, Volume One: An Introduction’ (MA diss., University of Birmingham, 1995).
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