Paul Moore
Associate Professor of Communication and Culture, Ryerson University.
Contributor Biography
Paul S. Moore is Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Ryerson University. He studies the history of the mass market and urban modernity in North America, proposing that amusement and leisure help constitute modern publics by providing spaces, rhetorics and logics for collective gathering. His current project, with Sandra Gabriele, traces the history of the Sunday newspaper in the United States as a key site of the emergence of popular culture. Their first results looked at the emergence of special editions in Toronto: “The Globe on Saturday, The World on Sunday” in the Canadian Journal of Communication (2009). He specializes in the history of early cinema and moviegoing across Canada, and has published histories of early cinema in Ontario, Newfoundland, and Saskatchewan. Now Playing: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun (SUNY Press, 2008) recounts the first decade of movie theatres in Toronto and won the 2009 Gertrude J. Robinson prize from the Canadian Communications Association.
