Paul Moore

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. Projects include the history of film and media distribution; Hollywood’s relation to Madison Ave. in print, radio & tv campaigns; the development of the Sunday newspaper in the 1890s as a foundation for mass media networks.

Recent Publications

Moore, P.S. and S. Gabriele. Forthcoming. The Sunday Paper, 1888-1922. University of Illinois Press (History of Communication Series).

Whitehead, J.L. and P.S. Moore. 2020. “Cinema Paradiso: Toronto’s Italian Language Cinemas and Distribution Networks” in Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future, edited by R. Calabretta-Sajder and A. Gravano. Lanham, MD: Lexington-Rowman & Littlefield.

Whitehead, J.L., L.B. Pelletier and P.S. Moore. 2020. PDF file“The Girl Friend in Canada’: Ray Lewis and the Canadian Moving Pictures Digest, 1915-1957”, external link, opens in new window 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. PDF file'Bought, Sold, Exchanged and Rented': The Early Film Exchange and the Market in Second-hand Films in New York Clipper Classified Ads.”, external link, opens in new window Film History 31(2): 1-31.

Moore, P.S. 2019. PDF file“‘It Pays to Plan ‘Em’: The Newspaper Movie Directory as a Spectre of Conspicuous Consumption”, external link, opens in new window in Companion to New Cinema History (pp. 365-377), edited by  B. Biltereyst, R. Maltby and P. Meers. New York: Routledge.

Moore, P.S. 2018. PDF file“A Distant Reading of the Chaser Theory: Local Views and the Digital Generation of New Cinema History”, external link, opens in new window in Technology and Film Scholarship: Experience, Study, Theory (pp. 169-193), edited by S. Hidalgo. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Moore, P.S. 2018. PDF file“Spaces In-Between: The Railway and Early Cinema in Canada”, external link, opens in new window in Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context (pp. 73-89), edited by D. Treveri Gennari, D. Hipkins and C. O’Rawe.  London: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2021 - Aaron Demeter; Project-Paper: Games as Pedagogy: A Post-mortem of Recall of Duty: Modern Empire

2020 - Rebecca Hume (co-supervision); Thesis: Ambiguity and Irreconcilability: A Critical Look at Reconciliation Discourse in Federal Land Claims and Self-Government Political Communications

2017 - Joey Jakob; Dissertation: Abu Ghraib and the commemorative violence of war trophy photography

2017 - Alevtina Naumova; Dissertation: Sense of the past: historic house museums in Toronto, Canada, as forms of an urban heterotopia

2016 - Ayman Saab; Major Research Paper: Clinical Trials and Celebrity Smiles: An exploration into the history and practice of selling wellness in the pharmaceutical industry

2016 - Amanda Wong; Major Research Paper: Ludic Arcade: An Observational Pop-Up Arcade Research Project

2016 - Andreas Koustas; Major Research Paper: Disneyland in the Living Room: Disney Infinity and the Commodification of Mixed Reality

2015 - Nur Shazlin Abdul Rahman; Thesis: Hijabi vloggers: Muslim women’s self expression and identity articulation on YouTube

2013 - Michelle M. Coyne; Dissertation: This Project can be Upcycled where Facilities are Available: an Adventure Through Toronto's Food/Waste Scape

2012 - Jessica L. Whitehead; Major Research Paper: The Historical Process of Fandom as a Participatory Pastime: Film Discourse in Newspapers from 1911 to 1918

2012 - Luke Simcoe; Major Research Paper: The Internet is Serious Business: 4Chan's /B/ Board and the Lulz as Alternative Political Discourse on the Internet

2011 - Juan Miguel De Villa; Major Research Paper: Ethnographic Journalism and the American Urban Crisis

2011 - Kimon Kaketsis; Project-Paper: Embodied Nostalgia

2011 - Meghan Lengyell; Thesis: Images on the Street: Fashion, Personal Style, and The Sartorialist

2009 - Kendra Stanyon; Major Research Paper: 'Victims' Of The Status Quo: Canada's Ongoing Marginalization Of Sex Workers

2009 - Alicia Vande Weghe; Thesis: Making my bed: Tracey Emin's hysterical confessions of the abject

ComCult Teaching Activities

• CC 8903 MA Seminar: Research and Practice
  
• CC 8920 Theoretical Approaches To Media and Culture
• CC 8930 Culture and Values in Popular Media
• CC 9900 Advanced Research Methods
• CC 9903 Phd Seminar in Commun Research and Pract
• CC 9906 PhD Field Seminar: Disciplinary Practices