All Outputs (11)

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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"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?".

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

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),

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

"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

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

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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Rediscovering the Cinema: On Brian Winston, Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television (1998)
Journal Article
Paul Sellors, C. (1998). Rediscovering the Cinema: On Brian Winston, Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television. Film-Philosophy, 2(1), https://doi.org/10.3366/film.1998.0009