Kubrick: An Odyssey

About Nathan AbramsRobert P. Kolker

ROBERT P. KOLKER earned his PhD in English Literature from Columbia University. He went on to teach at various universities among them New York University before retiring to dedicate his time to writing. He is the author of many books including four editions of A Cinema of Loneliness (OUP) and more recently The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles Alfred Hitchcock and the Reimagining of Cinema and Triumph over Containment: American Film in the 1950s (both with Rutgers University Press). With Nathan Abrams he has written Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (OUP).NATHAN ABRAMS is a professor of film studies at Bangor University in Wales and a cultural historian and commentator. He was born in London in 1972 and studied at the University of Oxford and the University of Birmingham. He is an expert on British and American popular culture history of film and intellectual culture especially Jewish themes and topics. He has written and edited over a dozen books including several on StanleyKubrick such as Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (with Robert Kolker) and Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual. He is also the co-founder and co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal. He lectures writes and broadcasts widely (in English and in Welsh) on various aspects of contemporary culture.