Dr Andrew Moor
(BA, MA and PhD Newcastle)Tel: 0161 247 3783
E-mail: a.moor@mmu.ac.uk
Room: 110 Geoffrey Manton Building, All Saints Campus
Research interests
British and European Cinema, Cinema Design, Film Theory and Gay/Queer Culture & Theory
Selected recent publications
Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces (I.B. Tauris: London, 2005).
The Cinema of Michael Powell: International Perspectives on an English Film-Maker, Ian Christie and Andrew Moor (eds.) (British Film Institute: London, 2005).
Signs of Life: Medicine and Cinema, Graeme Harper and Andrew Moor (eds.) (Wallflower Press: London, 2005).
‘Beyond the Pale: The Politics of Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game, in Robin Griffiths (ed), British Queer Cinema (Routledge: London, 2006).
‘Autobiography, the self and Pressburger-Powell’s The Golden Years project’, Screen, Volume 46, Number 1, 2005.
‘Hein Heckroth at the Archers: Art, Commerce, Sickliness’, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Volume 2, Number 1, 2005.
‘Dangerous Limelight: Anton Walbrook and the Seduction of the English’ in Bruce Babington (ed.), British Stars and Stardom (Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2001).
‘No Place – Like Home: Powell, Pressburger and Utopia’ in Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book (2nd edn.) (British Film Institute: London, 2001).
‘Spirit and Matter: Romantic mythologies in the films of Derek Jarman’ in David Alderson and Linda Anderson (eds), Territories of Desire: Challenging the Boundaries of Contemporary Queer Culture (Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2000).
Work-in-progress
I am currently working on a project which will combine gay/queer studies with reception/audience studies. This will involve an oral history project – interviewing gay/queer and straight audiences about their memories and experiences of seeing gay/queer/straight films.