"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..

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

Collective Authorship in Film (2007)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2007). Collective Authorship in Film. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 65(3), 263-271. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-594x.2007.00257.x

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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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 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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