Paul Moore
Professor
Faculty of Arts
Department of Sociology
Toronto, Ontario
psmoore@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 2604
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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. His recent research, Circuits of Cinema, tells the histo...
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Bio/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. His recent research, Circuits of Cinema, tells the history of film and media distribution from the earliest days of travelling shows to global blockbusters. His previous project was a social history of the first decade of movie-going in Toronto and the Midwest USA, tracing how the novelty of film became a mass practice through showmanship, regulation, and promotion. Collaborating with Prof. Sandra Gabriele, a forthcoming book examines the development of the weekend newspaper in the 1890s as a cultural technology, animating modernity, central to the institutionalization of mass society.
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