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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

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Anglophone Sub-Sahara African video industry: a new paradigmatic practice of movie--making

2006 - 2013
The subject of this study is Sub-Sahara Africa Anglophone Video-moviemaking and the research process is an emp...
Kofi Boateng | Director of Studies: Roberta McGrath | Second Supervisor: Dr C. Paul Sellors

In the best interests of the country: The American Film Institute and philanthropic support for American experimental and independent cinema in the 1960s

2005 - 2013
In the mid-1960s and early 1970s, experimental ...
Gracia Ramirez | Director of Studies: Dr C. Paul Sellors | Second Supervisor: Roberta McGrath

Design for bereavement: Transdisciplinary approaches to grieving processes

2016 - date
Richard Thompson | Director of Studies: Dr Diane Willis | Second Supervisor: Dr Kirstie Jamieson

Between the cracks: theme, screenwriting and visual structure

2012 - 2016
David Crawford | Director of Studies: Dr C. Paul Sellors | Second Supervisor: Mr James Mavor

“Voice, and verse”: Exploring the salience of text in the communication of newly composed music

2013 - 2020
Stuart Mitchell | Director of Studies: Mr. Ken Dempster | Second Supervisor: Dr John Hails

A vast shadow house: Critical and creative responses to David Lindsay’s vision

2015 - 2021
Dr Seán Martin | Director of Studies: Dr C. Paul Sellors | Second Supervisor: Dr Sarah Artt

Creative autonomy in the jazz framework: An exploration of autonomy and artistic license as it is applied to performance, improvisation and composition in the jazz context

2021 - date
Kyle Irwin | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe | Second Supervisor: Dr Zack Moir

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