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The Myth of Diegesis (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2022, July). The Myth of Diegesis. Paper presented at International Screen Studies Conference 2022, Glasgow [Online]

Diegesis is central to film criticism, yet, at least in film studies, it is a conceptual mess. Its definition in the discipline contradicts its original meaning and relies upon poorly theorised models of story worlds, producing an ambiguous boundary... Read More about The Myth of Diegesis.

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.

Disharmony in European Film Copyright (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2015, November). Disharmony in European Film Copyright. Paper presented at European Cinemas, Intercultural Meetings: Aesthetics, Politics, Industry, History, University of Copenhagen

British cinema sits in European cinema as comfortably as the UK sits in Europe. Although geographically European, the UK shares the common law with Commonwealth countries and the U.S. Continental Europe uses civil law. Both copyright law (common law)... Read More about Disharmony in European Film Copyright.

As We May Think about Film History (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2015, November). As We May Think about Film History. Paper presented at Turning the Page Conference, Ghent University

Digitised archives of newspapers and movie magazines solve access problems to a vast range of microfilm and print resources, many unavailable except in remote archives. They also enable text searching, hyperlinking, and data mining, processes well su... Read More about As We May Think about Film History.

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?".

“A Business Pure and Simple:” Film, Copyright, and Problems for Defining Authorship. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2011, June). “A Business Pure and Simple:” Film, Copyright, and Problems for Defining Authorship

I examine the underlying, and somewhat incompatible principles of hermeneutic, legal (UK), and empirical definitions of authorship. In this analysis I consider how the distinction between film as business and film as artistic expression, a distinctio... Read More about “A Business Pure and Simple:” Film, Copyright, and Problems for Defining Authorship..

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

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..

A Realist Account of Fiction (2006)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2006). A Realist Account of Fiction. Film and Philosophy, 10, 51-66

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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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A Different Perspective on Filmic Authorship (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2004, July). A Different Perspective on Filmic Authorship. Paper presented at Screen Conference, Glasgow

In this paper I argue that film theoreticians have frequently viewed filmic authorship from the wrong perspective, seeing it as a concept to be derived from a filmic text rather than an act of intentionally causing a text. This has placed theory at o... Read More about A Different Perspective on Filmic Authorship.