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

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