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Paul Moore is Associate Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University. He is past-president (2012-2014) of the Film Studies Association of Canada, past-director (2012-2017) at Ryerson of the MA & PhD in Communication and Culture, a joint program with York University. His book about the first decade of movie theatres in Toronto, Now Playing: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun, is winner of the 2009 Robinson Prize of the Canadian Communication Association. He serves on the editorial board of Early Popular Visual Culture, and hosted the 2017 annual international conference of the HoMER Network: History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception. Google Scholar. ORCID.