All Outputs (27)

Too Much Drama Defining Film in UK Copyright Law (2020)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2020). Too Much Drama Defining Film in UK Copyright Law. Journal of Media Law, 12(2), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1080/17577632.2020.1831141

In Norowzian v Arks Ltd. (No.2) the Court of Appeal determined that the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 protects films as dramatic works. What, conceptually and in practice, this means is not clear. This article examines and compares the hist... Read More about Too Much Drama Defining Film in UK Copyright Law.

Casual Lecturers in UK Universities: A View from/off the Edge of Europe (2016)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2016). Casual Lecturers in UK Universities: A View from/off the Edge of Europe. Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier, 4(2),

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Film Authorship and Film Copyright in Europe (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2015, November). Film Authorship and Film Copyright in Europe

This presentation begins with my research on film authorship and ends with my research on film copyright in Europe. One of the problems for understanding film authorship has been the presumption that the auteur – the film artist – is the same thing a... Read More about Film Authorship and Film Copyright in Europe.

The Gift of Not Giving: On Pedagogical Parsimony (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2015, January). The Gift of Not Giving: On Pedagogical Parsimony. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier Teaching Fellows Conference

"What in the World Distinguishes Fiction from Nonfiction Film?" (2014)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2014). "What in the World Distinguishes Fiction from Nonfiction Film?". Film and Philosophy, 18, 105-123. https://doi.org/10.5840/filmphil2014188

Advocates of blurred boundaries between fiction and nonfiction film identify shared narrative and representational practices to justify scepticism about nonfiction film’s ability to depict and convey views about reality. Such arguments fail because t... Read More about "What in the World Distinguishes Fiction from Nonfiction Film?".

Drawing a Clear Line between Fact and Fiction in the Animated Documentary. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2011, June). Drawing a Clear Line between Fact and Fiction in the Animated Documentary. Paper presented at Animated Realities Conference, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

The assertion that certain means of cinematic representation in documentary filmmaking, such as animation, blurs boundaries between fact and fiction rests on misconceptions about the terms ‘fact’ and ‘fiction’ and the relationship between reality and... Read More about Drawing a Clear Line between Fact and Fiction in the Animated Documentary..

Film Authorship: Auteurs and Other Myths (2010)
Book
Sellors, C. P. (2010). Film Authorship: Auteurs and Other Myths. Wallflower Press

Few topics in the study of film produce controversy like authorship. Critics, historians and theoreticians have debated the most important film authors, argued vociferously about the nature of film authorship, and even questioned whether films have a... Read More about Film Authorship: Auteurs and Other Myths.

Review of Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley (ed.) Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing and Paul S. Moore Now Playing: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun (2009)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2009). Review of Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley (ed.) Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing and Paul S. Moore Now Playing: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun. Screen, 50, 266-270. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjp009

A Different Perspective on Filmic Fiction and Authorship (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2005, March). A Different Perspective on Filmic Fiction and Authorship. Presented at University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen

Senso (2004)
Book Chapter
Sellors, C. P. (2004). Senso. In G. Bertellini (Ed.), The Cinema of Italy (63-71). Wallflower Press

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David N. Rodowick, Reading the Figural, or Philosophy after the New Media (2003)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2003). David N. Rodowick, Reading the Figural, or Philosophy after the New Media. Screen, 44(3), 347-350. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/44.3.347

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Breaking the Mimetic Contract: A Few Notes on Ideology, Intersubjectivity, and Film Theory (2002)
Journal Article
Bertellini, G., & Sellors, C. P. (2002). Breaking the Mimetic Contract: A Few Notes on Ideology, Intersubjectivity, and Film Theory. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 2(1),

New Sleeves, Same Old Tricks: Exposing Representation in Visual Fiction (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2001, November). New Sleeves, Same Old Tricks: Exposing Representation in Visual Fiction. Presented at Seminar on Magic, Glasgow University

Fiction, The Metaphysics of Modality and LePage’s Possible Worlds (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2001, November). Fiction, The Metaphysics of Modality and LePage’s Possible Worlds. Presented at Lecture at Centre for Screen Studies, University of Glasgow

Grafting Union Square onto the Old Rialto: Film-Going within Industrial Society (2001)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2001). Grafting Union Square onto the Old Rialto: Film-Going within Industrial Society. Living pictures : the journal of the popular and projected image before 1914, 1, 38-57

The Nature of Film Spectators (2000)
Journal Article
Paul Sellors, C. (2000). The Nature of Film Spectators. Film-Philosophy, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2000.0019

"Carl Plantinga and Greg M. Smith (eds.), Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion" [Book review] (2000)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2000). "Carl Plantinga and Greg M. Smith (eds.), Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion" [Book review]. Screen, 41(4), 431-435. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/41.4.431

In Defence of Fictional Narrators in Classical Narrative Cinema (2000)
Book Chapter
Sellors, C. P. (2000). In Defence of Fictional Narrators in Classical Narrative Cinema. In G. Coulter-Smith (Ed.), The Visual-Narrative Matrix: Interdisciplinary Collisions and Collusions (61-65). Fine Art Research Centre, Southampton Institute

On the Impossibility of "Once Upon a Time..." in Rollerball (2000)
Book Chapter
Sellors, C. P. (2000). On the Impossibility of "Once Upon a Time..." in Rollerball. In X. Mendik, & G. Harper (Eds.), Unruly Pleasures: The Cult Film and its Critics (45-59). FAB Press

The Impossibility of Science Fiction: Against Buckland's Possible Worlds (2000)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2000). The Impossibility of Science Fiction: Against Buckland's Possible Worlds. Screen, 41(2), 203-216. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/41.2.203

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