Dr. Paul Moore
Areas of Expertise
media history; urban studies; mass society & the mass market; newspapers; film exhibition
Research
Prof. Moore studies the history of the mass market and urban modernity in North America. Overall, his work argues that amusement and leisure help constitute modern publics by providing spaces, rhetorics, and logics for collective gathering. Recent research, Multicultural Moviegoing, tells the history of diasporic film and media distribution in Canada, such as Italian- and Chinese-language movie theatres. A new project considers Hollywood鈥檚 relation to Madison Ave. in print, radio & tv campaigns. Co-authored with Sandra Gabriele, The Sunday Paper: A Media History reviews how the weekend newspaper of the 1890s became a cultural technology, animating modernity, central to the institutionalization of mass society.
Website
Courses
- SOC 902: Hollywood and Society
- SOC 482: Advanced Approaches to Media Analysis
- SOC 931: Waste and Consumerism
- SOC 481: Survey Design and Analysis
- SOC 483: Statistical Modelling
- CC 9900: Doctoral Research Methodologies
- CC 8906: Master鈥檚 Communication & Cultural Theory
Graduate Program Membership
Community & Professional Service
- Canada Lead,
- Program Director, Arts & Contemporary Studies (2021-2022)
- University Senate (opens in new window) (2019-2021)
- 成人大片 Director of the joint York-成人大片 MA & PhD in Communication and Culture (opens in new window) (2012-2017)
- hosted the 7th International conference of the (History of Movie Exhibition and Reception) in 2017
- Past-President of the (2012-2014)
- working with the on their archive project and has been working to preserve and digitize Canadian film trade journals and documents
- has compiled histories of thousands of theatre and cinema buildings across Canada, and consults with local groups to help recover their regional cinema histories
Recent Publications
Moore, P.S. 2024. in Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema (pp. 481-502), edited by C. Keil and R. King. New York: Oxford.
Moore, P.S. and Whitehead, J.L. 2023. in Handbook of Ethnic Media in Canada (pp. 198-219), edited by S. Yu, D. Ahadi and A. Al-Rawi. Montreal: McGill-Queen's.
Moore, P.S. and S. Gabriele. 2022. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press (History of Communication Series).
Moore, P.S. 2022. 鈥淣arrative Cinema as a Separate Attraction: Archie L. Shepard鈥檚 Newspaper Publicity鈥� in (pp. 167-192), edited by M. Slugan and D. Biltereyst. New York: Bloomsbury.
Whitehead, J.L. and P.S. Moore. 2021. 鈥淐inema Paradiso: Toronto鈥檚 Italian Language Cinemas and Distribution Networks鈥� in Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future (pp. 183-211), edited by R. Calabretta-Sajder and A. Gravano. Lanham, MD: Lexington-Rowman & Littlefield.
Moore, P.S. with Verhoeven, Coles, Coate, Zemaityte, Musial, Prommer, Mantsio, Taylor, Eltham, Loist and Davidson. NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 9(2): 273-298.
Whitehead, J.L., L.B. Pelletier and P.S. Moore. 2020. in Mapping Movie Magazines: Digitization, Periodicals and Cinema History (pp. 127-152), edited by D. Biltereyst and L. Van de Vijver. London: Palgrave.
Moore, P.S. 2019. Film History 31(2): 1-31.
Moore, P.S. 2019. 鈥溾�業t Pays to Plan 鈥楨m鈥�: The Newspaper Movie Directory as a Spectre of Conspicuous Consumption鈥� in (pp. 365-377), edited by B. Biltereyst, R. Maltby and P. Meers. New York: Routledge.
Moore, P.S. 2018. in Technology and Film Scholarship: Experience, Study, Theory (pp. 169-193), edited by S. Hidalgo. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Moore, P.S. 2018. in Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context (pp. 73-89), edited by D. Treveri Gennari, D. Hipkins and C. O鈥橰awe. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.