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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Screenwriting is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The not so universal hero’s journey	16
Writing inclusive and diverse children’s television: Transgender representation in ABC Australia’s First Day	5
Russian web series: Mastering the new format	4
Serial offenders? Defining the boundaries of series and serial TV for screenwriting practice and theory	4
‘I wasn’t open to notes’: S. Craig Zahler, Dragged Across Concrete (2018) and the 157-page screenplay	3
Meeting old friends for the first time: A personal reflection on the development of the Screenwriting Research Network	3
Screenwriting research in Australia: A truncated (pre)history	3
Reading the docufiction script: Harnessing the thin line between facts and fiction	2
Spinning and singing: Exploring memory and gender non-conformity through screenwriting for publication first	2
Renegotiating the screenplay: Drawing as a method for narrative development in a short film	2
Conceptualizing and developing narrative-based virtual reality experiences: A review of disciplinary frameworks and approaches to research	2
Art in the ‘big print’: An examination and exercises for cinematic prose writing style	2
Editorial	2
Roundtable: Pushing the boundaries of the Screenwriting Research Network	2
What we cannot see in Sound of Metal and Her Smell: Interplays of awareness, perspective and language in the screenplay text	1
In defence of deus ex machina	1
Children’s fiction and anime: The case of Shōkōjo Sēra	1
The Country Boy: Investigating the Dennis Potter Archive, Forest of Dean, England	1
June Mathis: The master class	1
The power of schism: Unconventional narrative structure in No Country for Old Men	1
Catalysing Elastextity in adaptation screenwriting: The motivic chronotope of liminality	1
Writing/performing myself on-screen: Daniel Monks’ memory work on film	1
Rethinking our protagonists: Absence on screen and meta-narratives of empire	1
Investigating a cinematic virtual reality narrative framework for screenwriting	1
Gun violence, phenomenal reality and parallel worlds: Christina Kallas’s multi-protagonist narratives in The Rainbow Experiment	1

Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal: Cannibalizing the canon	1
Narrative structures in Colombian fictional web series published on YouTube	1
The deliberated decision in children’s mainstream cinema: On socialization in the discourse of freedom	1
Re-defining the Character Arc through Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality	1
Theme orientation and the inevitable outcome of structural flaws: Investigating the results of the dominance of theme over action in Farhadi’s The Salesman	1
Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men, Phil Rosenzweig (2021)	1
Piloting audience emotion for the television anti-heroine: Gender and immorality	1
How narrative techniques attract young parents: The refiguration of Logger Vick in the Chinese 3D animated film, Boonie Bears: To the Rescue	1
Hauntological screenwriting: Reflections on writing Render	1
‘Do animals talk in this dimension? ’Cos I don’t wanna freak anyone out’: Writing for children’s animation	1
Jenő Janovics: Michel Curtiz’s first screenwriter	1
Henson and Juhl’s Tale of Sand: From lost archive to graphic novel and illustrated screenplay	1
The biopic screenplay as a research output: Towards a working definition of narrative fiction filmmaking methodology	1
Editorial	1
The dramatization of the shepherd warrior in Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine and the Jordanian drama Bedouin series Rās Ghlaiṣ (‘The head of Ghlaiṣ’)	1
Fear and wonderment in a limitless world: Learning to write from a child’s point of view	1
How we role: The collaborative role-playing poetics of the Secret Story Network	1
Collaborative self-translation in the screenplays of The Godfather trilogy	1
Writing for instructional screens: Expanding the scope for screenwriting practitioners	1
Bringing queerness to the surface: Truman Capote’s November 1971 screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby	1
The case for team-based learning in higher education scriptwriting programmes: A narrative literature review	1
Just dancing with ideology? The role of dramaturgs within the socialist mode of children’s film development	1
Editorial	0
Directory of World Cinema: Africa, Blandine Stefanson and Sheila Petty (eds) (2014)	0
Script Analysis: Deconstructing Screenplay Fundamentals, James Bang (2022)	0
Adaptation screenplays as performance texts: Axiological linguistic acts in a case of Basque writing	0
In Custody: From written text to audio-visual discourse through a postcolonial lens	0
Editorial	0
Why The Knockout (2023) became a phenomenal hit: A contextual analysis and interview with screenwriter Zhu Junyi1	0
A Screenwriter’s Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement, Joseph Dougherty (2022)	0
The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Donna Rifkin (2020)	0
Prototyping first-person viewer positions for VR narratives with storyboards and pilot productions	0
Do the Right Thing: Storytelling Secrets of Five Screenplays That Embrace Diversity, Karla Fuller (2023)	0
Backwards & In Heels: The Past, Present and Future of Women Working in Film, Alicia Malone (2017)	0
The Art of Screen Adaptation: Top Writers Reveal Their Craft, Alistair Owen (2020)	0
Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success, Jon Krampner (2022)	0
Scripting Bollywood, Anubha Yadav (2021)	0
The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist, Julien Gorbach (2019)	0
Representing the child-free woman in the twenty-first century biopic	0
Rethinking screenwriting credits and the unproduced screenplay: Innovative approaches to accreditation using the script reading as an output	0
The economic case for equality in screenplays: The Bechdel test, female dialogue and box office revenue	0
Alternative Scriptwriting: Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen, Ken Dancyger, Jessie Keyt and Jeff Rush (2023), 6th ed.	0
Editorial	0
Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue, Monika Bednarek (2018)	0
Character composition: A new framework for TV serial drama characters	0
Script Development: Critical Approaches, Creative Practices, International Perspectives, Craig Batty and Stayci Taylor (eds) (2021)	0
Beyond the Hero’s Journey: Creating Powerful and Original Character Arcs for the Screen, Anthony Mullins (2022)	0
How backstory and direct address reformulate the Shakespearean character on television: The case of the missing psychological motivation for House of Cards’ Frank Underwood	0
Women, Ageing and the Screen Industries: Falling Off a Cliff?, Susan Liddy (ed.) (2023)	0
Textual perspectives: Screenwriting styles, modes and languages	0

Teaching screenwriting from the inside out: The importance of writers’ inner, emotional discoveries in understanding the tools of screenwriting	0
Robert De Niro at Work From Screenplay to Screen Performance, Adam Ganz and Steven Price (2020)	0
Editorial	0
Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, Alison Peirse (ed.) (2020)	0
A Tale from Constantinople: The History of a Film that Never Was, Bo Florin and Patrick Vonderau (2019)	0
Creating Australian Television Drama: A Screenwriting History, Susan Lever (2020)	0
Da criação ao Roteiro: Teoria e Prática (‘From creation to script: Theory and practice’), 5th ed., Doc Comparato (2018)	0
Editorial	0
Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness, Agnieszka Piotrowska (ed.) (2020)	0
Royals Next Door: Team writing for children on Zoom	0
Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author’s Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development, K. M. Weiland (2016)	0
Editorial	0
The stuff that dreams are made of: The Maltese Falcon and the art of adapted screenwriting	0
Screenwriter: The Life and Times of Nunnally Johnson, Tom Stempel (1980)	0
Scripting the silhouette: Writing around the participant in interactive virtual reality experiences	0
Editorial	0
The Science of Writing Characters, Kira-Anne Pelican (2020)	0
Slay the Dragon: Writing Great Video Games, Robert Denton Bryant and Keith Giglio (2015)	0
Stand-up comedy to the screen: A satirical autoethnographic approach	0
The Screenwriting Life, podcast with Meg Le Fauve and Lorien McKenna (inception 2 March 2020–present), https://www.thescreenwritinglife.co/ and https://www.patreon.com/TheScreenwritingLIfe, plus the u	0
Scripted resonance or lost in translation? Storytelling and Chinese reception of Everything Everywhere All at Once	0
The accented Japanese screenplay: Transnational currents in contemporary Japanese cinema	0
Arc analysis: Redefining character arcs for ‘constant’ characters	0
En Cas De Malheur, De Simenon A Autant-Lara (1956-1958): Essai De Genetique Scenaristique, Alain Boillat (2020)1	0
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, Maureen Ryan (2023)	0
Detrás de las sombras: Escritoras cinematográficas en el cambio de siglo en México, Maricruz Castro Ricalde and Diego Sheinbaum Lerner (2024)	0
Editorial	0
Erratum	0
Screenwriting is Filmmaking: The Theory and Practice of Writing for the Screen, Brian Dunnigan (2019)	0
Abitibi360: An example of the evolution of writing for 360-degree films	0
Scene Writing: The Missing Manual for Screenwriters, Chris Perry and Eric Henry Sanders (2022)	0
Little cinemas: Eugene O’Neill as screenwriter	0
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears, Michael Schulman (2023)	0
Inclusive Screenwriting for Film and Television, Jess King (2022)	0
Collaborating on The Translator: The aesthetics and politics of screenwriting	0
Filmish energy: A textual analysis of Tony Gilroy’s screenplay, Michael Clayton (2006)	0
The Modernist Screenplay: Experimental Writing for the Silent Film, Alexandra Ksenofontova (2020)	0
Discontinuous aesthetics as a result of collaborative screenwriting: A genetic approach to John Berger and Alain Tanner’s screenplays1	0