OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How we role: The collaborative role-playing poetics of the Secret Story Network	6
Textual perspectives: Screenwriting styles, modes and languages	4
The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Donna Rifkin (2020)	3
Representing the child-free woman in the twenty-first century biopic	3
Script development: Writing beyond Hollywood	2
Arc analysis: Redefining character arcs for ‘constant’ characters	2
Editorial	2
Editorial	2
The power of schism: Unconventional narrative structure in No Country for Old Men	2
Lire des scénarios: Pour une approche interdisciplinaire et renouvelée des pratiques scénaristiques, Gabrielle Tremblay (2024)	2
In Custody: From written text to audio-visual discourse through a postcolonial lens	2
Crafting characters: Screenplay archives from a star-studies perspective (Love Is My Profession, Claude Autant-Lara, 1958)	2
Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal: Cannibalizing the canon	1
Stories we sell: Intellectual property, ownership and the impact on Canadian screenwriters	1
Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men, Phil Rosenzweig (2021)	1
Robert De Niro at Work From Screenplay to Screen Performance, Adam Ganz and Steven Price (2020)	1
Refocus: The Films of Lawrence Kasdan, Brett Davies (2024)	1
Directory of World Cinema: Africa, Blandine Stefanson and Sheila Petty (eds) (2014)	1
The economic case for equality in screenplays: The Bechdel test, female dialogue and box office revenue	1
The case for team-based learning in higher education scriptwriting programmes: A narrative literature review	1
Screenwriting is Filmmaking: The Theory and Practice of Writing for the Screen, Brian Dunnigan (2019)	1
Report from the 2024 Screenwriting Research Network Conference	1
Piloting audience emotion for the television anti-heroine: Gender and immorality	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
En Cas De Malheur, De Simenon A Autant-Lara (1956-1958): Essai De Genetique Scenaristique, Alain Boillat (2020)1	1

Investigating a cinematic virtual reality narrative framework for screenwriting	1
Introduction: Trauma, screenwriting and suffering – Beyond the gospel of story	1
Catalysing Elastextity in adaptation screenwriting: The motivic chronotope of liminality	1
The accented Japanese screenplay: Transnational currents in contemporary Japanese cinema	1
How backstory and direct address reformulate the Shakespearean character on television: The case of the missing psychological motivation for House of Cards’ Frank Underwood	1
What we cannot see in Sound of Metal and Her Smell: Interplays of awareness, perspective and language in the screenplay text	0
Hauntological screenwriting: Reflections on writing Render	0
Collaborating on The Translator: The aesthetics and politics of screenwriting	0
Portraying disability with trauma: A case study of documentary screenwriting in presenting visually impaired subject	0
Editorial	0
Editorial	0
The Country Boy: Investigating the Dennis Potter Archive, Forest of Dean, England	0
Do the Right Thing: Storytelling Secrets of Five Screenplays That Embrace Diversity, Karla Fuller (2023)	0
Procession: The role of screenwriting and filmmaking in the healing process of survivors	0
June Mathis: The master class	0
Artificial intelligence use in screenwriting programmes in US and UK higher education: An exploratory research report	0
Inclusive Screenwriting for Film and Television, Jess King (2022)	0
Comedy screenwriting and mental health	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
Roundtable: Pushing the boundaries of the Screenwriting Research Network	0
Beyond the Hero’s Journey: Creating Powerful and Original Character Arcs for the Screen, Anthony Mullins (2022)	0
We need to talk about Lynne: Modular structure as a reflection of the traumatized psyche in We Need to Talk about Kevin	0
Race and Entertainment: Reflections on Racism in Film, TV and the Media, Thandi Lubimbi (2024)	0
Shadow Hollywood: Vertical drama and cross-cultural writing – How new models of drama production are impacting current screen industry practice	0
Prototyping first-person viewer positions for VR narratives with storyboards and pilot productions	0
Understanding the collaborative model of narrative in cinematic virtual reality	0
Discontinuous aesthetics as a result of collaborative screenwriting: A genetic approach to John Berger and Alain Tanner’s screenplays1	0
Shifting landscapes in the post-TV era: Impact of the streaming wave on Spanish screenwriters	0
Stand-up comedy to the screen: A satirical autoethnographic approach	0
The biopic screenplay as a research output: Towards a working definition of narrative fiction filmmaking methodology	0
Henson and Juhl’s Tale of Sand: From lost archive to graphic novel and illustrated screenplay	0
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears, Michael Schulman (2023)	0
‘I wasn’t open to notes’: S. Craig Zahler, Dragged Across Concrete (2018) and the 157-page screenplay	0
Character composition: A new framework for TV serial drama characters	0
Detrás de las sombras: Escritoras cinematográficas en el cambio de siglo en México, Maricruz Castro Ricalde and Diego Sheinbaum Lerner (2024)	0
Scripting the silhouette: Writing around the participant in interactive virtual reality experiences	0
Editorial	0
Writing Women for Film and Televison: A Guide to Creating Complex Female Characters, Anna Weinstein (2024)	0
Re-defining the Character Arc through Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality	0
Why The Knockout (2023) became a phenomenal hit: A contextual analysis and interview with screenwriter Zhu Junyi1	0
Narrative structures in Colombian fictional web series published on YouTube	0
Adaptation screenplays as performance texts: Axiological linguistic acts in a case of Basque writing	0
Women, Ageing and the Screen Industries: Falling Off a Cliff?, Susan Liddy (ed.) (2023)	0
Scripted resonance or lost in translation? Storytelling and Chinese reception of Everything Everywhere All at Once	0
Reading the docufiction script: Harnessing the thin line between facts and fiction	0
Conceptualizing and developing narrative-based virtual reality experiences: A review of disciplinary frameworks and approaches to research	0
Rethinking screenwriting credits and the unproduced screenplay: Innovative approaches to accreditation using the script reading as an output	0
Just a story: Framing trauma within screenwriting practice	0
Documenting trauma in the age of transitional justice: A study of Jesse Hung Wai-Kin’s (J. C. Hung) documentaries on Taiwan’s Public Television Service	0

A Screenwriter’s Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement, Joseph Dougherty (2022)	0
Tatiana Huezo: Trauma and the poetics of displacement	0
Script Analysis: Deconstructing Screenplay Fundamentals, James Bang (2022)	0
From novel to screenplay: The rewriting of Hurricane Season (2017) by Fernanda Melchor into the screenplay by Elisa Miller (2022)	0
The stuff that dreams are made of: The Maltese Falcon and the art of adapted screenwriting	0
Bringing queerness to the surface: Truman Capote’s November 1971 screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby	0
Editorial	0
Teaching screenwriting from the inside out: The importance of writers’ inner, emotional discoveries in understanding the tools of screenwriting	0
William Faulkner in Hollywood: Screenwriting for the Studios, Stefan Solomon (2017)	0
Script Development: Critical Approaches, Creative Practices, International Perspectives, Craig Batty and Stayci Taylor (eds) (2021)	0
Jenő Janovics: Michel Curtiz’s first screenwriter	0
Scripting Bollywood, Anubha Yadav (2021)	0
Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author’s Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development, K. M. Weiland (2016)	0
Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success, Jon Krampner (2022)	0
Filmish energy: A textual analysis of Tony Gilroy’s screenplay, Michael Clayton (2006)	0
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, Maureen Ryan (2023)	0
Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness, Agnieszka Piotrowska (ed.) (2020)	0
Alternative Scriptwriting: Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen, Ken Dancyger, Jessie Keyt and Jeff Rush (2023), 6th ed.	0
Rethinking our protagonists: Absence on screen and meta-narratives of empire	0
Editorial	0
Spinning and singing: Exploring memory and gender non-conformity through screenwriting for publication first	0
John Waters: Pope of Trash, Jenny He and Dara Jaffe (eds) (2023)	0
Little cinemas: Eugene O’Neill as screenwriter	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
Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage and Screen, David Crespy (2024)	0
Editorial	0
Editorial	0
Writing for instructional screens: Expanding the scope for screenwriting practitioners	0
In defence of deus ex machina	0