Matthew Moore, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Humanities; Director, Traditional Undergraduate General Education

Biography

SPECIALTY AREAS:

World cultures, film history, global history, geography, art and aesthetics, literature, playwriting, drama, comedy, political cartoons

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Nonviolence and world religions, films of Peter Weir, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Carol Reed, contemporary plays, popular historiography, comedy

SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS/ PRESENTATIONS:

“Orson Welles’s The Stranger and the Horology of Nazism” presenter and panelist: “Responding to Threats in Film” Midwest Popular/ American Culture Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois (October 2023)
“Clocks and Order in Shadow of a Doubt” presenter, panelist: “Film, Television, Music, and Visual Media: Alfred Hitchcock” Southwest Popular/ American Culture Association Annual Conference Albuquerque, New Mexico (February 2023)
Darkness is Our Candle (original play, staged reading produced by Ad Hoc Players 2023)
Watching Cosmic Time: Suspense Films of Hitchcock, Welles, and Reed. Cascade Books/ Wipf and Stock P. Eugene, OR, 2022 (A full-length academic book of film history and cultural analysis) http://wipfandstock.com/9781666732627/watching-cosmic-time/
“The Truman Show and Apocalyptic Time” presenter, panelist: “Film and History: Philosophy, Ethics, and Religion” Northeast Popular/ American Culture Association Annual Conference (October 2022)
Flora (original play, 48 Hour Play Plate-Off Marathon reading for Nickel Flour Productions 2022, reading for Rochester Regional Playwrights 2023)
Grant Writing from the Ground Up by Damon Diehl. SPIE Press: Bellingham, WA, 2021. (Illustrator, 50 original illustrations) http://spie.org/Publications/Book/2614041?&origin_id=x646&SSO=1
William Shakespeare’s Sharknado (original play, produced at Rochester International Fringe Festival 2021)
“Darwin’s Bible” in High Shelf: A Home for Poetry, Photography, and Art. High Shelf Press, Issue XXII (September, 2020) http://www.highshelfpress.com/issuexxii
“Cosmos” in Prometheus Dreaming. Vol. 2, Issue 6 (August, 2020) http://www.prometheusdreaming.com/poetry
Zoom Your Own Adventure: A Quarantine Comedy (original play, produced at Rochester International Fringe Festival 2020)
“Trumpism and the New Civil War” “Trump: TV Hero or Villain?” presenter, panelist: “Politics and Civic Life: The Trump Era and Social Change” Northeast Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Portsmouth, New Hampshire (November 2019)
Fringe Gardens (original play, fully staged and produced by A Happy Accident at Rochester International Fringe Festival 2018)
“Trump: TV Hero or Villain?” chair and presenter, panelist: “Transplanting Characters, Altering Genres” Saviors or Sociopaths: Film & History Annual Conference: Madison, Wisconsin (November 2018)
“B. T. Roberts’s Real Estate Debts” in Earnest: Interdisciplinary Work Inspired by the Life and Teachings of B. T. Roberts, Ed. Andrew Craig Koehl and David Basinger. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers. 2017. http://www.amazon.com/Earnest-Interdisciplinary-Inspired-Teachings-Roberts/dp/1532606338
Cited in “Carol Reed, Odd Man Out (1947)” A Shaper Focus, Dr. Norman Holland, University of Florida (2017): http://www.asharperfocus.com/OddMan.html
Words on Screen by Michel Chion. Edited and Translated by Claudia Gorbman. Noted: “Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism” University of California Press, Vol. 45, no. 1 (2017) http://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article/45/1/27/20581/Review-Words-on-Screen-by-Michel-Chion
The Magic World of Orson Welles: Centennial Anniversary Edition by James Naramore, Noted: “Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism” University of California Press, Vol. 44, no. 4 (2017) http://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article/43/4/45/3342/Review-The-Magic-World-of-Orson-Welles
Cyrano of the South (original play, staged reading produced by Ad Hoc Players 2017, recipient of academic professional grant 2016)
At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City by Matthew Asprey Gear, Noted: “Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism” University of California Press, Vol. 44, no. 3 (2016) http://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article/44/3/43/20516/Review-At-the-End-of-the-Street-in-the-Shadow
The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema by Robert Kolker. Noted: “Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism” University of California Press, Vol. 44, no. 6 (2017) http://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article/44/6/31/20560/Review-The-Extraordinary-Image-Orson-Welles-Alfred
Eclipse (original play, fully staged and produced by ShakeCo at Multi-Use Cultural Community Center 2016, staged reading produced by Cultural Enrichment Series 2012)
Living History (original play, fully staged and produced by ShakeCo, 2013)
“Cartographic Silences in Brian Friel’s Translations.” Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature: Silence and the Silenced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Leslie Boldt, Corrado Federici, and Ernesto Virgulti. New York: Peter Lang (2013) http://www.amazon.com/Silence-Silenced-Interdisciplinary-Perspectives-Literature/dp/1433123436