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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...

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/

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

"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...

“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...

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...

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

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

Senso.

Book
Sellors, C. P. (2003)
Senso. In Bertellini, G. (Ed.). The Cinema of Italy, 63-71. Wallflower Press. ISBN 1-903364-98-1
Senso.

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