Rachel Moore

Rachel Olivia Moore (born April 21, 1956) is an American film studies academic. A 2001 Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of Savage Theory, Hollis Frampton: Nostalgia (2006), and Performing Propaganda (2018), as well as co-editor of Public Space, Media Space (2013). She was a lecturer in international media at Goldsmiths, University of London. Biography Rachel Olivia Moore was born on April 21, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois.

As an academic, Moore specializes in early film and the avant-garde. In 2000, she published her book Savage Theory, focusing on the theme of magic in cinema. In 2001, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of folklore on film". She authored Afterall's 2006 book on Nostalgia: Hollis Frampton: Nostalgia. In 2018, she published another book, Performing Propaganda, focusing on the role of Parisian art music culture in World War I.

Despite working as an independent scholar in New York City, Moore has also held university positions. as well as chair of the University of London's Screen Studies Group and the MA degree program for film and screen studies. She was a visiting lecturer in art history at Birkbeck College, London. Hollis Frampton: Nostalgia (2006) (co-edited with Chris Berry and Janet Harbord) Public Space, Media Space (2013)