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Jewish Perspectives on Kubrick

Talk in connection with Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition, on view Jun 30–Oct 30, 2016 at The Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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).

Recorded Jul 14, 2016.

about the speakers
Nathan Abrams

Nathan Abrams is Professor of Film Studies at Bangor University in Wales. He is an expert on Jewish cinema, having written The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jews and Jewishness in Contemporary Cinema (Rutgers UP, 2012) and edited Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture (Northwestern UP, 2016). He is also founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal. He has been teaching the films of Stanley Kubrick since 2007 and his book exploring the Jewishness of Stanley Kubrick based on original research in the Stanley Kubrick Archives, Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual, is forthcoming from Rutgers UP. 

Geoffrey Cocks

Geoffrey Cocks is Professor of History at Albion College. He is the author of Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Göring Institute (1985, 1997); The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History and the Holocaust (2004); and The State of Health: Illness in Nazi Germany (2012).  He received his PhD from University of California, Los Angeles in 1975. 

Marat Grinberg

Marat Grinberg is associate professor of Russian and Humanities at Reed College. He is the author of "I am to Be Read not from Left to Right, but in Jewish: from Right to Left": The Poetics of Boris Slutsky and co-editor of Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen. His most recent essays on modern Jewish politics, literature, and cinema have appeared in Commentary, Tablet Magazine, Shofar, and Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities. His forthcoming book is Aleksandr Askol'dov: The Commissar, a study of the great banned Soviet film.

supporters

Stanley Kubrick is an exhibition by the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Christiane Kubrick, Jan Harlan, and The Stanley Kubrick Archive at University of the Arts London, with the support of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Sony-Columbia Pictures Industries Inc., Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc., Universal Studios Inc., and SK Film Archives LLC. 

The CJM’s presentation is made possible by lead sponsorship from the Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation. Major sponsorship from Osterweis Capital Management. Patron sponsorship is provided by Gaia Fund, Maribelle and Stephen Leavitt, Nellie and Max Levchin, Julie and David Levine, RayKo Photo Center, Dorothy R. Saxe, and Wendy and Richard Yanowitch. Supporting sponsorship is provided by an anonymous donor, Naomi and Jeffrey Caspe, Dana Corvin and Harris Weinberg, Morton and Amy Friedkin, Rosanne and Al Levitt, Siesel Maibach, Shana Nelson Middler and David Middler, Shelli Semler and Kyle Bach. Additional support is provided by an anonymous donor, Alvin H. Baum, Jr., Sally-Ann and Ervin Epstein, Jr., Joelle Steefel, Ruth and Alan Stein, and Wetherby Asset Management. 

Additional support is provided by The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s Bernard and Barbro Osher Exhibition Fund.

Major support for The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s exhibitions and Jewish Peoplehood Programs comes from the Koret Foundation.