C. Paul Sellors
c paul sellors

Dr C. Paul Sellors SFHEA

Lecturer T&R

 0131 455 5234

  cp.sellors@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

C. Paul Sellors is a Lecturer in Film Theory, History, and Criticism at 麻豆社区, and is the Programme Leader of BA (Hons) Film. He is the author of Film Authorship: Auteurs and Other Myths (2010) and has published on film theory, film history, the philosophy of film, and intellectual property law in film in journals including Screen, Living Pictures, Film and Philosophy, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and the Journal of Media Law. He achieved his PhD at New York University under the supervision of Professor Richard Allen. Before working at Edinburgh Napier he taught at New York University and the University of Glasgow.

School

Research Groups

Themes

Research Areas

Esteem

Fellowships and Awards

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

 

Invited Speaker

  • Visiting Lecturer, The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in 艁贸d藕

 

Reviewing

  • Manuscript Peer Reviewer

 

Filter by

Date


29 results

The Myth of Diegesis

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2022, July)
The Myth of Diegesis. Paper presented at International Screen Studies Conference 2022, Glasgow [Online]
Diegesis is central to film criticism, yet, at least in film studies, it is a conceptual mess. Its definition in the discipline contradicts its original meaning and relies upo...

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/

Film Authorship and Film Copyright in Europe

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2015, November)
Film Authorship and Film Copyright in Europe
This presentation begins with my research on film authorship and ends with my research on film copyright in Europe. One of the problems for understanding film authorship has b...

Disharmony in European Film Copyright

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2015, November)
Disharmony in European Film Copyright. Paper presented at European Cinemas, Intercultural Meetings: Aesthetics, Politics, Industry, History, University of Copenhagen
British cinema sits in European cinema as comfortably as the UK sits in Europe. Although geographically European, the UK shares the common law with Commonwealth countries and ...

As We May Think about Film History

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2015, November)
As We May Think about Film History. Paper presented at Turning the Page Conference, Ghent University
Digitised archives of newspapers and movie magazines solve access problems to a vast range of microfilm and print resources, many unavailable except in remote archives. They a...

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, 麻豆社区

"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鈥檚 abil...

鈥淎 Business Pure and Simple:鈥 Film, Copyright, and Problems for Defining Authorship.

Presentation / Conference
Sellors, C. P. (2011, June)
鈥淎 Business Pure and Simple:鈥 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...

Current Post Grad projects

Previous Post Grad projects