Journal of Screenwriting

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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The not so universal hero’s journey11
Cultural influences in screenwriting: Australia vs. Hollywood9
Telling Big Little Lies: Writing the Female Gothic as extended metaphor in Complex Television5
Serial offenders? Defining the boundaries of series and serial TV for screenwriting practice and theory4
Russian web series: Mastering the new format4
Writing inclusive and diverse children’s television: Transgender representation in ABC Australia’s First Day4
The silent women: The representation of Israeli female soldiers in Israeli women’s films4
Meeting old friends for the first time: A personal reflection on the development of the Screenwriting Research Network3
Screenwriting research in Australia: A truncated (pre)history3
The CVR narrative as a moebius strip13
‘I wasn’t open to notes’: S. Craig Zahler, Dragged Across Concrete (2018) and the 157-page screenplay3
Creativity and the unconscious in the screenwriting classroom: A review of the literature3
Scouting for scripts: Mizuki Yōko and social issue film in post-war Japan3
Editorial2
Roundtable: Pushing the boundaries of the Screenwriting Research Network2
Renegotiating the screenplay: Drawing as a method for narrative development in a short film2
The origins of screenwriting practice and discourse in Portugal2
Spinning and singing: Exploring memory and gender non-conformity through screenwriting for publication first2
Characters as fictional migrants: Atonement, adaptation and the screenplay process2
TV miniseries or long-form film? A narrative analysis of The Haunting of Hill House2
Reading the docufiction script: Harnessing the thin line between facts and fiction2
Art in the ‘big print’: An examination and exercises for cinematic prose writing style2
Battle of the sketches: Short form and feminism in the comedy mode2
The strange case of the three-column screenplay format in 1950s Czechoslovakia2
Just dancing with ideology? The role of dramaturgs within the socialist mode of children’s film development1
Negotiating autobiographical truth: Embodying sensation in the narrative screenplay1
Who is the author of Neria (1992) – and is it a Zimbabwean masterpiece or a neo-colonial enterprise?1
Editorial1
The 2019 Screenwriting Research Network Conference, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto (11–14 September): A personal reflection1
The Country Boy: Investigating the Dennis Potter Archive, Forest of Dean, England1
June Mathis: The master class1
The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives, Lajos Egri (1972)1
How narrative techniques attract young parents: The refiguration of Logger Vick in the Chinese 3D animated film, Boonie Bears: To the Rescue1
Tang Cheng: The first female animation screenwriter and director in the People’s Republic of China1
Piloting audience emotion for the television anti-heroine: Gender and immorality1
Hauntological screenwriting: Reflections on writing Render1
Catalysing Elastextity in adaptation screenwriting: The motivic chronotope of liminality1
Henson and Juhl’s Tale of Sand: From lost archive to graphic novel and illustrated screenplay1
Gun violence, phenomenal reality and parallel worlds: Christina Kallas’s multi-protagonist narratives in The Rainbow Experiment1
‘Polite, no chill’ for the win: How Emily Andras engaged fans and overcame problematic tropes in Wynonna Earp1
How the scripts of Latin American screenwriters Lucrecia Martel (Argentina), Anna Muylaert (Brazil) and Claudia Llosa (Peru) have made a mark on the world stage1
Children’s fiction and anime: The case of Shōkōjo Sēra1
In defence of deus ex machina1
Re-defining the Character Arc through Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality1
Theme orientation and the inevitable outcome of structural flaws: Investigating the results of the dominance of theme over action in Farhadi’s The Salesman1
The Hakawati’s Daughter: How the Syrian revolution inspired a rewrite1
Writing/performing myself on-screen: Daniel Monks’ memory work on film1
Bringing queerness to the surface: Truman Capote’s November 1971 screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby1
Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men, Phil Rosenzweig (2021)1
What we cannot see in Sound of Metal and Her Smell: Interplays of awareness, perspective and language in the screenplay text1
Collaborative self-translation in the screenplays of The Godfather trilogy1
‘Do animals talk in this dimension? ’Cos I don’t wanna freak anyone out’: Writing for children’s animation1
Jenő Janovics: Michel Curtiz’s first screenwriter1
The case for team-based learning in higher education scriptwriting programmes: A narrative literature review1
The biopic screenplay as a research output: Towards a working definition of narrative fiction filmmaking methodology1
The deliberated decision in children’s mainstream cinema: On socialization in the discourse of freedom1
The post-9/11 American political thriller film: Hollywood’s dissident screenplays1
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 view1
The power of schism: Unconventional narrative structure in No Country for Old Men1
Writing for instructional screens: Expanding the scope for screenwriting practitioners1
Rethinking our protagonists: Absence on screen and meta-narratives of empire1
How we role: The collaborative role-playing poetics of the Secret Story Network1
Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal: Cannibalizing the canon1
Editorial0
Investigating a cinematic virtual reality narrative framework for screenwriting0
Writing Hollywood: The Work and Professional Culture of Television Writers, Patricia F. Phalen (2018)0
Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood, J. E. Smyth (2018)0
Script Analysis: Deconstructing Screenplay Fundamentals, James Bang (2022)0
Editorial0
Why The Knockout (2023) became a phenomenal hit: A contextual analysis and interview with screenwriter Zhu Junyi10
En Cas De Malheur, De Simenon A Autant-Lara (1956-1958): Essai De Genetique Scenaristique, Alain Boillat (2020)10
Modern Film Dramaturgy: An Introduction, Kristen Stutterheim (2019)0
Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success, Jon Krampner (2022)0
The accented Japanese screenplay: Transnational currents in contemporary Japanese cinema0
Abitibi360: An example of the evolution of writing for 360-degree films0
Editorial introduction0
Robert De Niro at Work From Screenplay to Screen Performance, Adam Ganz and Steven Price (2020)0
Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness, Agnieszka Piotrowska (ed.) (2020)0
Editorial0
Da criação ao Roteiro: Teoria e Prática (‘From creation to script: Theory and practice’), 5th ed., Doc Comparato (2018)0
Inclusive Screenwriting for Film and Television, Jess King (2022)0
Royals Next Door: Team writing for children on Zoom0
Screenwriter: The Life and Times of Nunnally Johnson, Tom Stempel (1980)0
Editorial0
The Science of Writing Characters, Kira-Anne Pelican (2020)0
Character composition: A new framework for TV serial drama characters0
Editorial0
Editorial0
Conceptualizing and developing narrative-based virtual reality experiences: A review of disciplinary frameworks and approaches to research0
Slay the Dragon: Writing Great Video Games, Robert Denton Bryant and Keith Giglio (2015)0
Beyond the Hero’s Journey: Creating Powerful and Original Character Arcs for the Screen, Anthony Mullins (2022)0
Prototyping first-person viewer positions for VR narratives with storyboards and pilot productions0
Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction, Cari Beauchamp and Mary Anita Loos (eds) (2003)0
Textual perspectives: Screenwriting styles, modes and languages0
The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Donna Rifkin (2020)0
Backwards & In Heels: The Past, Present and Future of Women Working in Film, Alicia Malone (2017)0
A Tale from Constantinople: The History of a Film that Never Was, Bo Florin and Patrick Vonderau (2019)0
Teaching screenwriting from the inside out: The importance of writers’ inner, emotional discoveries in understanding the tools of screenwriting0
Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling, Alexis Krasilovsky (2018)0
Fade in, Crossroads: A History of the Southern Cinema, Robert Jackson (2017)0
Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, Alison Peirse (ed.) (2020)0
Little cinemas: Eugene O’Neill as screenwriter0
Scene Writing: The Missing Manual for Screenwriters, Chris Perry and Eric Henry Sanders (2022)0
The Art of Screen Adaptation: Top Writers Reveal Their Craft, Alistair Owen (2020)0
The economic case for equality in screenplays: The Bechdel test, female dialogue and box office revenue0
How to Write for Moving Pictures: A Manual of Instruction and Information, Marguerite Bertsch (1917)0
The Modernist Screenplay: Experimental Writing for the Silent Film, Alexandra Ksenofontova (2020)0
Directory of World Cinema: Africa, Blandine Stefanson and Sheila Petty (eds) (2014)0
Filmish energy: A textual analysis of Tony Gilroy’s screenplay, Michael Clayton (2006)0
Writing for the Screen: Creative and Critical Approaches, Craig Batty and Zara Waldeback (2019)0
Script Development: Critical Approaches, Creative Practices, International Perspectives, Craig Batty and Stayci Taylor (eds) (2021)0
Expanding practice: Script development with new Deaf screenwriting talent0
Prewriting your Screenplay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Generating Stories, Michael Tabb (2019)0
Narrative structures in Colombian fictional web series published on YouTube0
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, Maureen Ryan (2023)0
Ethics in Screenwriting: New Perspectives, Steven Maras (2016)0
Editorial0
Arc analysis: Redefining character arcs for ‘constant’ characters0
Creating Australian Television Drama: A Screenwriting History, Susan Lever (2020)0
Do the Right Thing: Storytelling Secrets of Five Screenplays That Embrace Diversity, Karla Fuller (2023)0
A Screenwriter’s Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement, Joseph Dougherty (2022)0
Scripting Bollywood, Anubha Yadav (2021)0
Screenwriting is Filmmaking: The Theory and Practice of Writing for the Screen, Brian Dunnigan (2019)0
Erratum0
The stuff that dreams are made of: The Maltese Falcon and the art of adapted screenwriting0
The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist, Julien Gorbach (2019)0
Editorial0
Alternative Scriptwriting: Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen, Ken Dancyger, Jessie Keyt and Jeff Rush (2023), 6th ed.0
Scripting the silhouette: Writing around the participant in interactive virtual reality experiences0
Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue, Monika Bednarek (2018)0
Discontinuous aesthetics as a result of collaborative screenwriting: A genetic approach to John Berger and Alain Tanner’s screenplays10
Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?, Jane M. Gaines (2018)0
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