The Impossibility of Science Fiction: Against Buckland's Possible Worlds
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2000)
The Impossibility of Science Fiction: Against Buckland's Possible Worlds. Screen, 41(2), 203-216. doi:10.1093/screen/41.2.203
The Impossibility of Science Fiction: Against Buckland's Possible Worlds.
Drawing a Clear Line between Fact and Fiction in the Animated Documentary.
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 ab...
Film Authorship: Auteurs and Other Myths.
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 ab...
“A Business Pure and Simple:” Film, Copyright, and Problems for Defining Authorship.
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 distinc...
A Realist Account of Fiction.
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2006)
A Realist Account of Fiction. Film and Philosophy, 10, 51-66
A realist account of fiction.
"What in the World Distinguishes Fiction from Nonfiction Film?"
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 abil...
Casual Lecturers in UK Universities: A View from/off the Edge of Europe
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),
Article can be read on the journal page - http://www.teachingmedi...ew-fromoff-edge-europe/
Too Much Drama Defining Film in UK Copyright Law
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2020)
Too Much Drama Defining Film in UK Copyright Law. Journal of Media Law, 12(2), 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 pra...
The Gift of Not Giving: On Pedagogical Parsimony
Presentation / Conference
Sellors, C. P. (2015, January)
The Gift of Not Giving: On Pedagogical Parsimony. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier Teaching Fellows Conference, Edinburgh Napier University
Grafting Union Square onto the Old Rialto: Film-Going within Industrial Society.
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. ISSN 1467-0577