Presentation of the books Kubrick: An Odyssey (Pegasus Books, 2024), and Kubrick’s Mitteleuropa: The Central European Imaginary in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (Berghahn, 2024), and discussion with authors Nathan Abrams (University of Bangor, Wales), and Jeremi Szaniawski (UMass Amherst)
Moderator: David Bromwich (Yale University)
Reception to follow
8pm/HQ L01 - Screening (in 35mm) of The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
Free and open to the public
Nathan Abrams is a professor in film at Bangor University in Wales. He is a founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal, as well as the author of The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema, and Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual, and co-author of Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of his Final Film.
Jeremi Szaniawski is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies, and the Amesbury Professor of Polish Language and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the editor of After Kubrick: A Filmmaker’s Legacy, and of the online dossier The Shining at 40; and the coeditor of Gender, Power, and Identity in The Films of Stanley Kubrick.