Journal Articles

Wells, P (2021) ‘Do animals talk in this dimension? ’Cos I don’t wanna freak anyone out’: Writing for children’s animation, Journal of Screenwriting, 12(3), pp.371-388, ISSN: 1759-7137. DOI: 10.1386/josc_00073_1.

Wells, P (2018) After Hitchcock: Animation - "The Bastard Form of Writing', Journal of Screenwriting Special Issue: Animation, 9(3), pp.257-264, ISSN: 1759-7137. DOI: 10.1386/josc.9.3.257_2.

Wells, P (2018) Yesteryear to Yuri: Tracing the Olympic Ideal in Animation, Olympics and Culture - Tracings, Projections and Intersections, pp.98-107.

Wells, P (2018) The New Needs Friends: On the academic as critic and as a public voice, Animation Practice, Process and Production, 6, pp.71-92, ISSN: 2042-7875.

Wells, P (2018) Zepo: Frames of reference in sand animation, Short Film Studies, 8(1), pp.37-40, ISSN: 2042-7824. DOI: 10.1386/sfs.8.1.37_1.

Wells, P (2018) Playing on the Animation Spectrum: Sport and Visualisation, Imago: studi di cinema e media, 16, pp.79-95, ISSN: 2038-5536.

Wells, P (2017) 'Surely I should get a script credit, shouldn't I?: Creative, Consultative, and Collaborative Script Development - The Oil Kid', Journal of Screenwriting, Vol 8(3), pp.303-318, ISSN: 1759-7137. DOI: 10.1386/josc.8.3.303_1.

Wells, P (2017) Karen Beckman (ed) Animating Film Theory, Animation: an interdisciplinary journal, 12(2), pp.198-202, ISSN: 1746-8477.

Gibson, EK, Crabb, EM, Gianolio, D, Russell, AE, Thompsett, D, Wells, PP (2017) Understanding the role of promoters in catalysis: operando XAFS/DRIFTS study of CeOx/Pt/Al2O3 during CO oxidation, Catalysis, Structure and Reactivity, 3(1-2), pp.5-12, DOI: 10.1080/2055074X.2017.1278890.

Wells, P (2016) ‘Writing Animated Documentary: A Theory of Practice’, International Journal of Film and Media Arts, Vol 1(No 1), 1.

Wells, P (2016) ‘Screenwriting in the Digital Era by Kathryn Millard’, Journal of Screenwriting, 7(2), pp.225-228, ISSN: 1759-7137.

Wells, P (2016) ‘The Animation Manifesto. Or What’s Animation Ever Done for Us ?’, Metro, (188), pp.94-101, ISSN: 0312-2654.

Selvam, P, Sauer, J, Garrett, B, Campbell, C, van Santen, R, Davies, P, Miller, AL, Bowker, M, Hutchings, G, Wotton, D, Freund, H-J, Howard, M, Feaviour, M, Burch, R, Raspolli Galletti, AM, Gross, E, Ivars Barcelo, F, Kotarba, A, Kondrat, S, Weckhuysen, B, Majumdar, B, Bruix, A, Fischer, N, Gates, B, Moulijn, J, Roldan, A, Novak Tusar, N, Jakubek, T, Willock, D, Craven, M, Sethu, K, Catlow, R, Madix, R, Manyar, H, Friend, C, Corma, A, Wells, P, Ueda, W, Trunschke, A, Palmer, R (2016) Designing new catalysts: synthesis of new active structures: general discussion, Faraday Discussions, 188, pp.131-159, ISSN: 1359-6640. DOI: 10.1039/c6fd90015a.

Wells, P (2015) Jonathan Myers's 'The Canterbury Tales': The Screenwriting Sovereignty of Animation, Journal of Screenwriting, 7(1), pp.65-81, ISSN: 1759-7137.

Iqbal, S, Kondrat, SA, Jones, DR, Schoenmakers, DC, Edwards, JK, Lu, L, Yeo, BR, Wells, PP, Gibson, EK, Morgan, DJ, Kiely, CJ, Hutchings, GJ (2015) Ruthenium Nanoparticles Supported on Carbon: An Active Catalyst for the Hydrogenation of Lactic Acid to 1,2-Propanediol, ACS CATALYSIS, 5(9), pp.5047-5059, ISSN: 2155-5435. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5b00625.

Lyons, G and Wells, P (2014) Words & Images, The Fifth Screenwriting Research Network Conference Macquarie University and The University of Technology, Sydney, 14–16 September 2012, Journal of Screenwriting, 5(1), pp.157-161, ISSN: 1759-7137. DOI: 10.1386/josc.5.1.157_7.

Wells, P (2014) 'I can't abide cartoons !': animation, gravity and the five degree space, Animation Practice Process and Production, 3(Edition 1 & 2), pp.3-15, ISSN: 2042-7875.

Wells, P (2014) Chairy Tales: Objects and Materiality in Animation, Alphaville : Journal of Film and Screen Media, 1(8), pp.Unpaginated-Unpaginated, ISSN: 2009-4078.

Wells, P (2014) Breadcrumbs the size of Volkswagens: legacies and languages, Animation Practice, Production and Process, 4(1), pp.3-11, ISSN: 2042-7875. DOI: 10.1386/ap3.4.1.3_2.

Wells, P (2012) Laughter is Ten Times More Powerful than a Scream: The Case of Animated Comedy, pp.495-520, DOI: 10.1002/9781118327821.ch23.

Wells, P (2012) ‘Validating the Animated Film: Toys Stories, Trade Tattoos and Taiwan Tigers: Or What’s Animation Ever Done for Us ? Themanummer Animatie, Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis (Journal for Media History), 15(1), pp.5-24.

Wells, P (2011) The Chaplin effect: Ghosts in the machine and animated gags, pp.15-28.

Wells, P (2011) 'Picture by Picture, Movement by Movement': Melbourne-Cooper, Shiryaev and the Symbolic Body, ANIMATION-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL, 6(2), pp.149-162, ISSN: 1746-8477. DOI: 10.1177/1746847711407406.

Wells, P (2011) Animating Space: from Mickey to WALL-E, SCREEN, 52(1), pp.133-136, ISSN: 0036-9543. DOI: 10.1093/screen/hjq058.

Wells, P (2011) From Melbourne Cooper to Match of the Day and Mo-Cap: Motion as Metaphor and Metaphysics in Animated Sport, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT, 28(8-9), pp.1219-1234, ISSN: 0952-3367. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2011.567774.

Wells, P (2010) Christine Bolewski: Mountain-water-painting: A critical Commentary, Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art, 15.

Wells, P (2010) 'They Thought It Was a Marvel': Arthur Melbourne Cooper (1874-1961) Pioneer of Puppet Animation, JOURNAL OF BRITISH CINEMA AND TELEVISION, 7(3), pp.502-504, ISSN: 1743-4521. DOI: 10.3366/jbctv.2010.0113.

Wells, P (2008) In Through the Revolving Door: Dave and Alex Beasley's Address of the Oldest Profession, FF Dossier, 037, pp.1-3.

Wells, P (2008) 'Swing for Sale': The Golden Age of Jazz 'Toons', Electric Sheep (Wallflower Press), 2, pp.28-31.

Wells, P (2007) I'll Teach You to Laugh at Something Funny, Archive (Magazine of National Media Museum Bradford), 10, pp.32-33.

Wells, P (2007) DVD Review: The British Animation Awards DVD set, Animation, 2(1), pp.94-99, ISSN: 1746-8477. DOI: 10.1177/1746847707074712.

Wells, P (2007) No more heroes (British films), SIGHT AND SOUND, 17(2), pp.88-88, ISSN: 0037-4806.

Conferences

Wells, P (Accepted for publication) Using the Animation 'Bible': Devising and Development. In 11th Screenwriting Research Network International Conference; Writing for Cinema, Writing for Television, University Cattolica, Milan.

Harland, RG, Du, Q, Selby, A, Wells, P, Xu, J, Yonghi, L, Zhang, X (2019) Defining urban graphic heritage for economic development in the UK and China. In International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2019 (IASDR 2019), Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.

Wells, P (2018) ‘The Beautiful Frame: Publics, Producers, Protagonists’ [Keynote: APES Symposium, Leicester, UK. In APES Symposium, Leicester.

Wells, P (2018) Keynote; The Beautiful Frame Re-Mounted: Animation, Sport and Reminiscence. In 3rd Annual International Conference of Chinese Animation Research, Chengdou University, Chengdu, China.

Wells, P (2018) Yesteryear to Yuri: Tracing the Olympic Ideal in Animation. In Olympics and Culture, Joshibi University, Tokyo, Japan.

Wells, P (2018) Keynote: 'Playing on the Animation Spectrum; Sport and Visualisation. In Animafest Scanner Symposium, Zagreb, Zagreb Centre for the Moving Image.

Wells, P (2017) Satoshi Kon and Paprika. In Re-Thinking Film Genres: East Asian Cinema and Beyond, University of Hull, Hull.

Wells, P (2017) The Beautiful Frame: Curating TV Sporting Animation. In Sporting Heritage Conference, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford UK.

Wells, P (2017) Hey-lp! Hey-lp! - "I'm behind that phoney front that Penelope fell for": Paul, Pitstop and the Permissive Permission. In Queering Animation Conference, University of Hull, Hull.

Wells, P (2017) For Liberals, Limeys and Ladies: A Political Guide to Animation and Sport. In International Scientific Conference, Animated Politics from Melies to Mulloy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan.

Wells, P (2017) Reconsidering the Animation Spectrum. In Seoul Creative Dream, Seoul South Korea.

Wells, P (2017) ‘Woody, Buzz and the Koons Corollary…or Why ‘Toy Story’ is art’. In ‘Toy Story at 20’ Conference, University of Sunderland, UK, University of Sunderland.

Wells, P (2016) ‘Children’s Animation Masterclass: ‘Storyboarding: In the Picture’ + Panel Convenor with Jean-Christophe Roger, Vincent Bal, and Remy Chaye + European Film Forum Panel contributor. In Keynote Speaker + Convenor, Cinekid for Professionals, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Wells, P (2016) ‘Life, Animated: Crossing Distance and Discipline in Animated Media’. In Keynote Speaker, Asia Animation International Forum, Buncheon, Seoul, South Korea,, Buncheon, Seoul, South Korea.

Wells, P (2016) ‘A History of Animation in 100 Objects: An Epic Poem’ + Screening of ‘Mackinnon & Saunders: A Model Studio’. In Keynote, ‘Lurching Charm: Smallfilms Animation Exhibition and Symposium’, V&A Museum of Childhood, London, UK, V&A Museum of Childhood, London.

Wells, P (2016) ‘From Punch to Pho: The Comfort of Caricature in British Comics and Cartoons’. In Keynote; Animation and Comic Books: A Symposium, Anifest Canterbury, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK.

Wells, P (2016) ‘”Surely, I Should get a script credit, shouldn’t I?” - Creative, Consultative and Collaborative Script Development: The Oil Kid’. In 9th Annual International Screenwriting Research Network Conference, University of Leeds / Leeds Beckett University, UK, University of Leeds / Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Wells, P (2016) ‘Inter-animating Life, Love and the Universe, or How we learned to multi-mediate, and why animation can save the world…’. In Keynote, Screen Futures: Education, Innovation, Industry, Association of the Teachers of Media (ATOM) and Australia Centre for Moving Image (ACMI) Conference, Melbourne, Australia,, Melbourne Australia.

Silverwood, IP, Ai-Rifai, N, Cao, E, Nelson, DJ, Chutia, A, Wells, PP, Nolan, SP, Frogley, MD, Cinque, G, Gavriilidis, A, Catlow, CRA (2016) Towards microfluidic reactors for in situ synchrotron infrared studies. In , REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS. DOI: 10.1063/1.4941825.

Wells, P (2016) ‘Making It Up As We Go Along’: The Future of Animation Archives. In 3rd Connected Communities Heritage Network Conference, University of Lincoln.], University of Lincoln, UK.

Wells, P (2015) ‘Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Animated Literacy of Techno-cultural Velocity’. In Keynote Speaker: Contemporary Innovations: The Arts, Technology and Culture Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Wells, P (2015) ‘Writing TV Animation for Children’. In Keynote + Moderation, Cinekid for Professionals, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Wells, P (2015) ‘A Disappointing Effort from the Singing Centre Forward: Sporting Choreography and Animated Performance’. In 8th Annual International Screenwriting Research Network Conference, Senate House, University of London, Senate House, University of London.

Wells, P (2015) ‘Left Turns at Alburqueque ? Animation - Theories of Practice, Practices of Theory’. In Keynote, Animation-An Interdisciplinary Summer School Symposium, University of Tubingen, Germany,, University of Tubingen, Germany.

Wells, P (2015) ‘Never Closing the Castle Gates Again: Frozen, Radial Radicalism and the Magic Kingdom’. In ‘Symfrozium’, University of East Anglia, UK, UEA Norwich, UK.

Wells, P (2015) ‘Chairy tales: Objects and materiality in animation’. In Keynote: ‘Under the Radar’ Symposium, Webster University and Wien Culture, MuseumQuartier, Vienna, Austria, March 2015, Vienna.

Wells, P (2015) Wonderlands, slumberlands & plunderlands: Fantasy in the animated film. In Keynote, Fantasy / Animation Conference, Kings College London, Kings College, London.

Wells, P (2014) Machines, micro-narratives, McLaren & me: Writing ‘industrial animation’. In Keynote: The Animator, 26th Annual Society of Animation Studies International Conference, Corus Entertainment / Sheridan College, Toronto, Canada,, Toronto, Canada.

Wells, P (2014) The animated citizen: A travelogue of theories and practices. In Keynote: Creative Animation Knowledge Exchange, British Council & CICAF, Symposium and Festival, Edge Hill University, UK, Edge Hill University.

Wells, P (2013) ‘Between Documentary and the Deep Blue Sea – The Case of Industrial Animation Re-Visited’. In Keynote: 2CO Communicating Complexity, International Design Conference, UNISS, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, Sardinia, Italy.

Wells, P (2013) ‘Queneau, Madden and Screenwriting for Animation’. In Keynote: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Animation, Comics and Literature: Change and Continuity – A Symposium of the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film convened by the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, AG Animation, the Literaturhaus, Stuttgart, and the SAS, April 2013], Stuttgart.

Wells, P (2013) Comfort in caricature: Adapting British comics into animation. In Keynote: SAS Symposium: Adaptation: Animation, Comics and Literature, Literaturhaus, Stuttgart,, Stuttgart.

Wells, P (2012) ‘Toy Stories, Trade Tattoos and Taiwan Tigers, Or What’s Animation Ever Done for Us ? – Validating the Animated Film’. In Keynote: Anima: 7th International Festival of Animation, Ill Foro Academico Internacional sobre Animacion, Cordoba, Argentina,, Cordoba, Argentina, pp.5-24.

Wiltshire, RJK, King, CR, Rose, A, Wells, PP, Hogarth, MP, Thompsett, D, Russell, AE (2005) A PEM fuel cell for in situ XAS studies. In , ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA, pp.5208-5217, DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2005.05.038.

Kavanagh, TJ, Wells, P, Chong, A (2005) Drawing Walking. In Designs on eLearning, Conference Proceedings, University of the Arts, London, pp.1-9, ISBN: 1 903455 09 X.

Books

Wells, P (2017) The Beautiful Frame: Animation & Sport, Animation Academy, ISBN: 9781788081290.

Wells, P and Moore, S (2016) The fundamentals of animation, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, ISBN: 978-1-4725-7526-5.

Wells, P (2014) Animation, sport and culture, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 978-1-137-02762-7. DOI: 10.1057/9781137027634.

Wells, P (2009) The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons and Culture, Rutgers University Press, ISBN: 9780813544151.

Wells, P, Quinn, J, Mills, L (2008) Basics Animation: Drawing for Animation, AVA, ISBN: 9782940373703.

Wells, P and Hardstaff, J (2008) Re-imagining Animation: Contemporary Moving Image Cultures, AVA, ISBN: 9782940373697.

Wells, P (2007) Basics Animation: Scriptwriting, AVA, ISBN: 9782940373161.

Wells, P and Halas, V (2006) Halas & Batchelor Cartoons: An Animated History, Southbank Publishing, ISBN: 1904915175.

Wells, P (2005) The Fundamentals of Animation, AVA Publishing SA, ISBN: 978-2-940-37302-4.

Wells, P and Davies, PJ (ed) (2002) American Film and Politics from Reagan to Bush Jnr, Manchester University Press, ISBN: 0-7190-5865-1.

Wells, P (2002) Animation: Genre and Authorship (Short Cuts), Wallflower Press, ISBN: 1903364205.

Wells, P (2002) Animation and America, Rutgers University Press, ISBN: 0813531608.

Wells, P, O'Sullivan, T, Burton, A (ed) (2000) The Family Way: The Boulting Brothers and British Film Culture, Flicks Books, ISBN: 0948911 59 X.

Wells, P (2000) The Horror Genre: from Beelzebub to Blair Witch, Wallflower Press, ISBN: 1-90336-400-0.

Wells, P (1998) Understanding Animation, Routledge, ISBN: 0415115973.

Wells, P, O'Sullivan, T, Burton, A (ed) (1997) Liberal Directions: Basil Dearden and Postwar British Film Culture, Flicks Books, ISBN: 0-948911 29 8.

Wells, P (ed) (1997) Art and Animation, Academy Group / John Wiley, ISBN: 1-85490-525-2.

CD Objects

Wells, P (2016) The Halas & Batchelor Short Film Collection,Netwerk.

Kavanagh, TJ, Wells, P, Chong, A (2005) Drawing Walking,, ISBN: 1 903455 09 X.

Chapters

Wells, P (2020) The Disruptive Metamorphoses of an Impish God: Gilliam's Satiric Animation. In Egan, K and Weinstock, A (ed) And Now for Something Completely Different Critical Approaches to Monty Python, EUP, pp.91-106, ISBN: 9781474475150.

Wells, P (2020) Just Do It, Impossible is Nothing: Animation and Sports Commercials. In Cook, M and Thompson, KM (ed) Animation and Advertising, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.179-194, ISBN: 9783030279387.

Wells, P (2020) 'Yahoo ! My LastMoment Has Come" - Peter Lord and the Literacy of Wit and Nostalgia. In Honess Roe, A (ed) Aardman Animations: Beyond Stop Motion, Bloomsbury Academic, pp.53-70, ISBN: 978-1-3501-1455-5.

Wells, P (2019) Animation. In The Cinema Book, Third Edition, pp.87-89, ISBN: 9781844571925.

Wells, P (2018) Never Mind the Bollackers: Here's the Repositories, Sites and Archives in Non-Fiction Animation. In Murray, J and Ehrlich, N (ed) Drawn from Life: Issues and Themes in Animated Documentary Cinema, Edinburgh University Press, pp.106-128, ISBN: 978-0748694112.

Wells, P (2018) Woody, Buzz and the Koons Corollary..Or Why Toy Story is Art. In Shaw, S, Brown, N, Summers, S (ed) Toy Story: How Pixar Re-Invented the Animated Feature, Bloomsbury, pp.167-180, ISBN: 978-1-5013-2491-8.

Wells, P (2018) Wonderlands, slumberlands and plunderlands: Considering the animated fantasy. In Fantasy/Animation: Connections between Media, Mediums and Genres, pp.23-40, ISBN: 9781138054370. DOI: 10.4324/9781315166919.

Wells, P (2018) Re-Splitting, De-Synchronising, Re-animating: (E)motion, Neo-Spectacle and Innocence in the Film Works of John Stezaker. In Smith, V and Hamlyn, N (ed) Experimental and Expanded Animation: New Perspectives and Practices, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.163-182, ISBN: 978-3-319-73872-7.

Wells, P (2018) Wonderlands, Slumberlands, and Plunderlands: Considering the Animated Fantasy. In Holliday, C and Sergeant, A (ed) Fantasy / Animation: Connections between Media, Mediums & Genres, Routledge, pp.23-40, ISBN: 978-1-138-05437-0.

Wells, P (2018) ‘Perfect bridge over the crocodiles’: Tacit contracts, listen thieves, and emotional labor in the animated fago. In Emotion in Animated Films, pp.15-34, ISBN: 9781138303287. DOI: 10.4324/9780203731253.

Wells, P (2018) 'Perfect Bridge over the Crocodiles' - Tacit Contracts, Listen Thieves and Emotional Labor in the Animated FAGO. In Uhrig, M (ed) Emotions in Animated Films, Routledge, pp.15-34.

Wells, P (2016) Automania: Animated automobiles 1950 -1968. In The Motor Car and Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century, pp.84-95, ISBN: 9781859284612.

Wells, P (2016) ‘Perception in terms of Movement’ : Kovásznai – An Animated Soul. In Kovasznai: A Cold War Artist - Animation, Painting, Freedom, Kovasznai Research Centre Foundation, pp.8-12.

Wells, P (2016) British animation and the fairytale tradition: housetraining the Id. In Fairy-tale Films Beyond Disney: International Perspectives, © Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pp.48-63, ISBN: 978-0-415-70930-9.

Wells, P (2016) 'Britannia - the Musical': scores, songs and soundtracks in British animation. In The Cambridge Companion to Film Music, © Cambridge University Press, pp.247-263, ISBN: 9781107476493.

Wells, P (2015) Plasmatic Pitches, Temporal Tracks and Conceptual Courts: The Landscapes of Animated Sport. In Animated Landscapes: History, Form and Function, Bloomsbury, pp.215-232, ISBN: 978-1-62892-351-3.

Wells, P (2015) 'Moral Panics in Children's TV' and 'Children's TV Animation'. In The Television Genre Book, BFI Palgrave, pp.122 /176-124/186, ISBN: 978-1-84457-526-8.

Wells, P (2015) ‘I Quite Deliberately Dressed Wild Animals in the Tame Costumes of My Imagination’: Animals as Special Effects. In Manley, S and Irving, K (ed) Lives Beyond Us: Poems and Essays on the Film Reality of Animals, Sidekick Books, pp.19-38, ISBN: 9781909560208.

Wells, P (2015) ‘You Can See What Species I Belong to but Don’t treat me lightly’: Rhetorics of Representation in Animated Animal Narratives’. In Animal Life and the Moving Image, BFI, pp.95-107.

Wells, P (2015) British animation and the fairy-tale tradition: Housetraining the id. In Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney: International Perspectives, pp.48-63, ISBN: 9780415709293. DOI: 10.4324/9781315885629-10.

Wells, P (2014) 'Sorry Blondie, I don't do backstory!' script editing: The invisible craft. In Screenwriters and Screenwriting: Putting Practice into Context, pp.151-169, ISBN: 9781137338921. DOI: 10.1057/9781137338938.

Wells, P (2014) Joy, Britain Needs You. In A Moving Image: Joy Batchelor 1914-91 Artist, Writer and Animator, Southbank Publishing, pp.59-79, ISBN: 978-1-904915-41-6.

Wells, P (2014) Dusan Vukotic: The Forgotten Visionary. In Dusan Vukotic: The Forgotten Visionary, Nacionalna Zajednica Crnogoraca Hrvatske / Skaner Studio, pp.13-20, ISBN: 978-953-7239-48-0.

Wells, P (2014) Animation. In The Oxford Book of Science Fiction, Oxford University Press, pp.184-196, ISBN: 978-0-19-983884-4.

Wells, P (2013) 'Thou art translated': Analysing animated adaptation. In Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text, pp.199-213, ISBN: 9780415167376.

Wells, P (2013) ‘Laughter is Ten Times More Powerful Than a Scream: The Case of Animated Comedy”. In A Companion to Film Comedy, Wiley Blackwell, pp.497-520.

Wells, P (2013) ‘Pronoun Troubles and Factual Conversations: Dialogue in Animated Film’. In Film Dialogue, Wallflower Press / Columbia University Press, pp.56-69.

Wells, P (2013) ‘The Abnormal Cinema: The Post Millennial Animated Feature’. In Animatopia: New Paths of Animation Cinema, Graficas Lizarra: Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia- San Sebastian, pp.193-210, ISBN: 978-84-88452-72-6.

Wells, P (2012) ‘”The sight of 40 year old genitalia too disgusting, is it ?”: Wit, Whimsy and Wishful Thinking in British Animation 1900-Present’. In British Comedy Cinema,, Routledge, pp.196-208.

Wells, P (2012) ‘Computer Animation’. In The Wiley Blackwell History of American Film Vol iV: 1976-Present,, Wiley Blackwell, pp.448-471.

Wells, P (2011) The Toolbox of Technology and Technique: Animation in 100 Objects. In Hilty, G (ed) Watch Me Move, Merrell Publishers,ISBN: 9781858945583.

Wells, P (2011) ‘The Chaplin Effect: Ghosts in the Machine and Animated Gags’ in D.Goldmark & C.Keil (eds) Funny Pictures; Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood, Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 2011, pp 15-28. In Funny Pictures; Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood, University of California Press, pp.15-28, ISBN: 978-0-520-26724-4.

Wells, P (2011) ‘WALL-E’. In Il Cinema Americano Attraverso I Film, Carocci Editore, pp.185-198, ISBN: 978-88-430-6096-2.

Wells, P (2010) Boards, Beats, Binaries and Bricolage: Appriaches to the Animated Script. In Nelmes, J (ed) Analysing the Screenplay, Routledge, pp.89-105, ISBN: 9780415556347.

Wells, P (2010) Halas & Batchelors Sound Decisions: Musical Approaches in the British Context. In Coyle, R (ed) Draw to Sound: Music, Sound and Animation Cinema, Equinox, pp.40-59.

Wells, P (2009) Stop Writing or Write like a rat: Becoming Animal in Animated Literary Adaptions. In Carroll, R (ed) Adaption in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infedelities, Continuum, pp.96-110, ISBN: 9780826424648.

Wells, P (2009) The Beautiful Village Re-Visited: Animated Documentary - Contemporary Contexts and Conditions. In Brendstraup, R (ed) Kosmorama, Nr 242, Winter 2008/Spring 2009, Danish Film Institute & Cinematek, pp.62-73.

Wells, P (2009) Animation and digital culture. In American thought and Culture in the 21st Century, pp.291-306, ISBN: 9780748626014.

Wells, P (2008) Animation and Digital Culture. In Halliwell, M and Morley, C (ed) American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century, Edinburgh University Press, pp.291-305, ISBN: 9780748626021.

Wells, P (2007) 'Animation + 'Ryan' and 'Dreams and Desires: Family Ties'. In Pam Cook, (ed) The Cinema Book, British Film Institute, pp.87-89, ISBN: 9781844571932.

Wells, P (2007) Contrepoint, interface, immersion: animation et cinéma direct revisités. In Pierre Floquet, (ed) CinémAnimationS, Corlet Publications, pp.221-229, ISBN: 978-2-84706-128-4.

Wells, P (2007) All Adaptations Are Equal But Some Are More Equal Than Others: Animating the Classics. In Whelehan, I and Cartmell, D (ed) The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen, Cambridge University Press, pp.199-211, ISBN: 9780521614863.

Wells, P (2007) Classic literature and animation: All adaptations are equal, but some are more equal than others. In The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen, pp.199-211, ISBN: 9780521849623. DOI: 10.1017/CCOL0521849624.014.

Wells, P (1996) Around the World in Animation. In Unknown Parent Title, BFI Education, pp.s 1-20.

Wells, P (1994) MOMI SFX : Special Effects in the Cinema. In Unknown Parent Title, BFI Education, pp.s 1-30.

Digital/Visual Products

Wells, P (2014) Whispers and Wererabbits: Clare Jennings- Producer, National Media Museum.

Wells, P (2014) Mackinnon & Saunders: A Model Studio, Animation Academy, Bradford Animation Festival, National Media Museum.

Wells, P (2012) An Animated Utopia: The Life and Achievement of John Halas, Animation Academy, Bradford Animation Festival, National Media Museum.

Wells, P (2011) Inside the Green Book: The Life and Work of Geoff Dunbar, Animation Academy, Bradford Animation Festival, National Media Museum.

Exhibitions

Dennis, L and Selby, A (2018) Olympics and Culture: Tracings, Projections and Intersections, Joshibi Art Museum, Kanagawa Prefecture, Tokyo, Japan, 12 pieces (Images), 04-07-2018 to 01-08-2018.

Wells, P (2017) The Beautiful Frame: Animation & Sport, National Football Museum, Manchester, 280 pieces , 11-11-2017 to 28-02-2018.

Internet Publications

Wells, P (2018) ‘Happy Birthday Mickey Mouse: Animation’s Greatest Showman is 90’.

Wells, P (2018) ‘Netflix’s BoJack Horseman is one of the most complex animated characters ever created’.

Wells, P (2018) ‘Peter Rabbit: Why It is still one of the greats of children’s literature’, The Conversation.com (August 31st 2018).

Wells, P (2018) ‘Remembering Isao Takahata, the Japanese animator who made us see the World as Children’.

Scholarly Editions

Bendazzi, G (2016) British Animation, Taylor & Francis.

Other

Wells, P (2014) Whispers and Wererabbits: Claire Jennings, 60 min documentary about animation producer, Claire Jennings.

Wells, P (2011) Animation Practice Process and Production (AP3).

Wells, P (2009) Taking the Country Road: The Film Craft of Tony Fish, 25 minute Documentary Commissioned by Bradford Animation Festival.

Wells, P (2008) Fab Four to Ethel & Ernest: A Tribute to John Coates & TVC, 25 minute Documentary commissioned by Bradford Animation Festival.

Wells, P and Bristol, BBC (2005) Animation Nation, Consultancy (Research, Script, Interview). 3x60 mins BBC Television Programmes (Exec Producer: Tom Ware).

Wells, P, Halas, Batchelor, Blue, DP (2005) Ruddigore / Tales of Hoffnung, Consultancy (Research, Script, Commentary). DVD. (Exec Producer: Vivien Halas).

Wells, P, Disney, S, Aardman, A, Brownbag, F, Purves, B (2002) Animation at the Ark, Group exhibition, Dublin Feb-Mar 2002; touring Apr-Jun 2002. Curation. All contextual exhibition materials for exhibited Animation process artworks; production script for school's exhibition tour.