Stanley Kubrick: Intellectual and Innovative Filmmaker

Join us for an event co-organised by the Centre for Jewish Studies and the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, with speaker Nathan Abrams, Professor in Film at Bangor University.

Why have Stanley Kubrick’s films endured and provided a model for so many contemporary filmmakers like Coralie Fargeat or Jordan Peele?

In this talk, Professor Nathan Abrams, co-author of Kubrick: An Odyssey will argue that it boils down to two key reasons: (a) that his films contain ideas; and (b) that they typically innovated or advanced a technological process in some way.

Kubrick’s preproduction research was legendary. When he decided to make a film on a topic, he mastered it by reading voluminously. At the same time, he innovated technically, developing such processes as front projection, using NASA lenses or Steadicam.

About the speaker

Professor Nathan Abrams is Professor in Film at Bangor University. He serves as the lead director for the Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies. Professor Abrams is widely recognized for his extensive research and publications on Stanley Kubrick.

His notable works include Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (Rutgers UP, 2018) Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (Oxford UP, 2019), The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (Bloomsbury 2021) and Kubrick: An Odyssey (Faber, 2024).

Book cover of Kubrick: An Odyssey by Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams.

More information

For more information, please email Jay Prosser at J.D.Prosser@leeds.ac.uk

Find out more about the Centre for Jewish Studies and the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds.

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Photo of Professor Nathan Abrams.