Matthew Moore

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) https://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) https://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)

• “Cosmos” in Prometheus Dreaming. Vol. 2, Issue 6 (August, 2020)

• 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.  https://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): https://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) https://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) https://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) https://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) https://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) https://www.amazon.com/Silence-Silenced-Interdisciplinary-Perspectives-Literature/dp/1433123436