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The New Jew in Film
Jewish film characters have existed almost as long as the medium itself. But around 1990, films about Jews and their representation in cinema multiplied and took on new forms, marking a significant departure from the past. With a fresh generation of Jewish filmmakers, writers, and actors at work, contemporary cinemas have been depicting a multiplicity of new variants, including tough Jews; brutish Jews; gay and lesbian Jews; Jewish cowboys, skinheads, and superheroes; and even Jews in space.
The New Jew in Filmis grounded in the study of over three hundred films from Hollywood and beyond. Nathan Abrams explores these new and changing depictions of Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism, providing a wider, more representative picture of this transformation. In this compelling, surprising, and provocative book, chapters explore masculinity, femininity, passivity, agency, and religion in addition to a departure into new territory-including bathrooms and food. Abrams's concern is to reveal how the representation of the Jew is used to convey confidence or anxieties about Jewish identity and history as well as questions of racial, sexual, and gender politics. In doing so, he provides a welcome overview of important Jewish films produced globally over the past twenty years.
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Kubrick : an odyssey
This immersive biography of the legendary director of films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and A Clockwork Orange is based on new research and interviews with family members and those who worked with him.
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Stanley Kubrick
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.Stanley Kubrick 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-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.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.
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“A Monstrously Difficult Subject”: Stanley Kubrick’s Aryan Papers (1991–1993)
While Stanley Kubrick long sought to make a film about World War II and the Holocaust, he never succeeded. He came very close in his attempt to adapt Louis Begley’s Wartime Lies as Aryan Papers between 1991 and 1993. Combining the latest insights in the emerging field of Kubrick Studies, specifically into Kubrick’s Jewishness, with the newly available archival material deposited in the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of Arts London, this article explores the pre-production of Aryan Papers before considering why it was never realized and then tentatively suggesting, in the absence of any shot footage, how it may have looked.
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The Bloomsbury companion to Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick is one of the most revered directors in cinema history. His 13 films, including classics such as Paths of Glory, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining, attracted controversy, acclaim, a devoted cult following, and enormous critical interest. With this comprehensive guide to the key contexts - industrial and cultural, as well as aesthetic and critical - the themes of Kubrick's films sum up the current vibrant state of Kubrick studies. Bringing together an international team of leading scholars and emergent voices, this companion provides comprehensive coverage of Stanley Kubrick's contribution to cinema.
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Norman Podhoretz and Commentary Magazine : the rise and fall of the neocons
Nathan Abrams examines the origins, rise fall of neoconservatism, arguing that much of what has been said about it in recent years is the result of wilful distortion exaggeration by both the neocons their opponents.
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Kubrick’s Jewesses Onscreen and Offscreen
This article considers the Jewess in relation to the art of Stanley Kubrick. By utilizing the latest insights in the emerging field of Kubrick studies, namely the “new historical turn” that is based on exploiting material now deposited in his archive at the University of Arts, London, combined with the growing work on Kubrick’s Jewishness and on Kubrick and feminism, it argues for a reconsideration of Kubrick's working practices with regard to Jewish women, but also that the notion of the Jewess helps us to understand Kubrick’s work. In so doing, it expands our notion of the Jewess beyond explicit representation, thus widening the current boundaries within Jewish film studies. It will attempt to do so by combining a survey of those Jewish women with whom Kubrick worked before analyzing the Jewesses in his projects, in particular how his casting choices, among other factors, leave palimpsestic traces in his films, and hence permitting us the possibility of reading those Jewish actresses as Jewesses onscreen.
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