C. Paul Sellors
c paul sellors

Dr C. Paul Sellors SFHEA

Lecturer T&R

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  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.

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  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

 

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

 

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  • Manuscript Peer Reviewer

 

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Fiction, The Metaphysics of Modality and LePage鈥檚 Possible Worlds

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2001, November)
Fiction, The Metaphysics of Modality and LePage鈥檚 Possible Worlds. Presented at Lecture at Centre for Screen Studies, University of Glasgow

Grafting Union Square onto the Old Rialto: Film-Going within Industrial 麻豆社区.

Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2001)
Grafting Union Square onto the Old Rialto: Film-Going within Industrial 麻豆社区. Living pictures : the journal of the popular and projected image before 1914. 1, 38-57. ISSN 1467-0577

"Carl Plantinga and Greg M. Smith (eds.), Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion" [Book review]

Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2000)
"Carl Plantinga and Greg M. Smith (eds.), Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion" [Book review]. Screen, 41(4), 431-435. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/41.4.431

The Nature of Film Spectators

Journal Article
Paul Sellors, C. (2000)
The Nature of Film Spectators. Film-Philosophy, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2000.0019

In Defence of Fictional Narrators in Classical Narrative Cinema

Book Chapter
Sellors, C. P. (2000)
In Defence of Fictional Narrators in Classical Narrative Cinema. In G. Coulter-Smith (Ed.), The Visual-Narrative Matrix: Interdisciplinary Collisions and Collusions (61-65). Fine Art Research Centre, Southampton Institute

On the Impossibility of "Once Upon a Time..." in Rollerball

Book Chapter
Sellors, C. P. (2000)
On the Impossibility of "Once Upon a Time..." in Rollerball. In X. Mendik, & G. Harper (Eds.), Unruly Pleasures: The Cult Film and its Critics (45-59). FAB Press

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.

Rediscovering the Cinema: On Brian Winston, Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television

Journal Article
Paul Sellors, C. (1998)
Rediscovering the Cinema: On Brian Winston, Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television. Film-Philosophy, 2(1), https://doi.org/10.3366/film.1998.0009

Fictional Worlds and Fictional Metaphysics

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (1998, April)
Fictional Worlds and Fictional Metaphysics. Paper presented at The Impossible Conference, University of Kent

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