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About Nathan Abrams
I trained as a historian of Modern US History but have branched out into Jewish Studies and Film Studies. I'm currently a professor of film studies at Bangor University in north Wales. I broadcast and write regularly on transatlantic Jewish culture. I've written a biography of Norman Podhoretz and since 2012 have been focussing on Stanley Kubrick with a bio of him forthcoming in 2023. I'm also interested in food.
Nathan Abrams is a professor of film at Bangor University in Wales. His most recent work is on film director Stanley Kubrick. To discuss and propose a book for interview you can reach him at n.abrams@bangor.ac.uk. Twitter: @ndabrams
NBN Episodes hosted by Nathan:
July 13, 2024
New Israeli Horror
Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next…
September 4, 2023
Escape to Gwrych Castle
In 1939, a number of German Jewish refugee children, brought over on the Kindertransport, found themselves in Abergele, North Wales. Their temporary n…
September 2, 2023
Jewish Women in Comics
In Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders (Syracuse UP, 2022), contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women’s comics to explore th…
April 4, 2023
Finding Refuge
A popular history telling the stories of people who found refuge in Wales from Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s. Finding Refuge will resonate with those…
February 6, 2023
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
In 1966 Stanley Kubrick told a friend that he wanted to make “the world’s scariest movie.” A decade later Stephen King’s The Shining landed on the dir…
December 3, 2022
The Shining
The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting (Rough Trade Books, 2022) is an immersive, multi-dimensional examination of one of the most famous films i…
October 28, 2022
The Whole Durn Human Comedy
The Coen Bros. have attracted a wide following and have been rewarded with Oscars and other honors. Some of their films such as Fargo, The Big Lebowsk…
April 8, 2022
Hollywood and Israel
From Frank Sinatra’s early pro-Zionist rallying to Steven Spielberg’s present-day peacemaking, Hollywood has long enjoyed a “special relationship” wit…
April 6, 2022
Citizen Spielberg
Steven Spielberg's extraordinary career redefined Hollywood, but his achievement goes far beyond shattered box office records. Rejecting the view of S…
March 25, 2022
Triumph Over Containment
The long 1950s, which extend back to the early postwar period and forward into the early 1960s, were a period of “containment culture” in America, as …
March 11, 2022
Movie-Made Jews
Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition (Rutgers University Press, 2021) focuses on a rich, usable American Jewish cinematic tradition. This tradition …
February 24, 2022
David Cronenberg
From his early horror movies, including Scanners, Videodrome, Rabid, and The Fly—with their exploding heads, mutating sex organs, rampaging parasites,…
February 1, 2022
Holocaust Cinema Complete
Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many. One quarter of all American-produced …
January 7, 2022
The Babel Message
A thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point. Keith Kahn-Harris is a man obsessed with something seemi…