OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Textual perspectives: Screenwriting styles, modes and languages	5
Beyond textual fidelity: Creator interactions, professional boundaries and cultural hierarchies in Israel’s youth media adaptation system	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
Neither artificial nor intelligent: Applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and creative machine learning in screenwriting and screen story development in the Charismatic Consortium	2
Lire des scénarios: Pour une approche interdisciplinaire et renouvelée des pratiques scénaristiques, Gabrielle Tremblay (2024)	2
Crafting characters: Screenplay archives from a star-studies perspective (Love Is My Profession, Claude Autant-Lara, 1958)	2
Script development: Writing beyond Hollywood	2
In Custody: From written text to audio-visual discourse through a postcolonial lens	2
Editorial	2
Editorial	2
Arc analysis: Redefining character arcs for ‘constant’ characters	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
Investigating a cinematic virtual reality narrative framework for screenwriting	1
Stories we sell: Intellectual property, ownership and the impact on Canadian screenwriters	1
Report from the 2024 Screenwriting Research Network Conference	1
Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal: Cannibalizing the canon	1
The power of schism: Unconventional narrative structure in No Country for Old Men	1
Refocus: The Films of Lawrence Kasdan, Brett Davies (2024)	1
Introduction: Trauma, screenwriting and suffering – Beyond the gospel of story	1
Editorial	1
The economic case for equality in screenplays: The Bechdel test, female dialogue and box office revenue	1
En Cas De Malheur, De Simenon A Autant-Lara (1956-1958): Essai De Genetique Scenaristique, Alain Boillat (2020)1	1
The case for team-based learning in higher education scriptwriting programmes: A narrative literature review	1
Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men, Phil Rosenzweig (2021)	1

Screenwriting in French Cinema, Sarah Leahy and Isabelle Vanderschelden (2021)	0
Alternative Scriptwriting: Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen, Ken Dancyger, Jessie Keyt and Jeff Rush (2023), 6th ed.	0
Screenwriting and AI: Emerging theories, modes and practices	0
We need to talk about Lynne: Modular structure as a reflection of the traumatized psyche in We Need to Talk about Kevin	0
Web series written by women and targeting female audiences: An exploratory analysis of narrative practices in a cross-cultural context	0
Echoes in the Overlook: Uncovering hidden patterns in Kubrick’s The Shining	0
Script Analysis: Deconstructing Screenplay Fundamentals, James Bang (2022)	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
Stand-up comedy to the screen: A satirical autoethnographic approach	0
Bringing queerness to the surface: Truman Capote’s November 1971 screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby	0
The stuff that dreams are made of: The Maltese Falcon and the art of adapted screenwriting	0
Do the Right Thing: Storytelling Secrets of Five Screenplays That Embrace Diversity, Karla Fuller (2023)	0
Rethinking our protagonists: Absence on screen and meta-narratives of empire	0
William Faulkner in Hollywood: Screenwriting for the Studios, Stefan Solomon (2017)	0
Artificial intelligence use in screenwriting programmes in US and UK higher education: An exploratory research report	0
Redefining roles: Human–AI collaboration in screenwriting	0
Comedy screenwriting and mental health	0
Teaching screenwriting from the inside out: The importance of writers’ inner, emotional discoveries in understanding the tools of screenwriting	0
Collaborating on The Translator: The aesthetics and politics of screenwriting	0
When Buffy saved the world: Looking back on a quarter century in Sunnydale	0
Editorial	0
Tatiana Huezo: Trauma and the poetics of displacement	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
Procession: The role of screenwriting and filmmaking in the healing process of survivors	0
Spinning and singing: Exploring memory and gender non-conformity through screenwriting for publication first	0
Harnessing artificial intelligence for screenplay translation: A practice-based study on English-to-Korean screenplay adaptation	0
Beyond the Hero’s Journey: Creating Powerful and Original Character Arcs for the Screen, Anthony Mullins (2022)	0
Scene Writing: The Missing Manual for Screenwriters, Chris Perry and Eric Henry Sanders (2022)	0
Abitibi360: An example of the evolution of writing for 360-degree films	0
Reading the docufiction script: Harnessing the thin line between facts and fiction	0
Inclusive Screenwriting for Film and Television, Jess King (2022)	0
SRN and Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy festival 2025 – A critical-creative report	0
Shifting landscapes in the post-TV era: Impact of the streaming wave on Spanish screenwriters	0
Prototyping first-person viewer positions for VR narratives with storyboards and pilot productions	0
Script development and audience influences: Towards a typology of audience-making practices	0
What we cannot see in Sound of Metal and Her Smell: Interplays of awareness, perspective and language in the screenplay text	0
Conceptualizing and developing narrative-based virtual reality experiences: A review of disciplinary frameworks and approaches to research	0
Editorial	0
Writing Women for Film and Televison: A Guide to Creating Complex Female Characters, Anna Weinstein (2024)	0
Writing and Producing for Children and Young Audiences: Cases from Danish Film and Television, Eva Novrup Redvall (2024)	0
Why The Knockout (2023) became a phenomenal hit: A contextual analysis and interview with screenwriter Zhu Junyi1	0
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears, Michael Schulman (2023)	0
Editorial	0
Women, Ageing and the Screen Industries: Falling Off a Cliff?, Susan Liddy (ed.) (2023)	0
Piloting audience emotion for the television anti-heroine: Gender and immorality	0
The Country Boy: Investigating the Dennis Potter Archive, Forest of Dean, England	0
John Waters: Pope of Trash, Jenny He and Dara Jaffe (eds) (2023)	0
Character composition: A new framework for TV serial drama characters	0
Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author’s Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development, K. M. Weiland (2016)	0
Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage and Screen, David Crespy (2024)	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
Scripted resonance or lost in translation? Storytelling and Chinese reception of Everything Everywhere All at Once	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
Re-defining the Character Arc through Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality	0
The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films, James Miller (2025)	0
Discontinuous aesthetics as a result of collaborative screenwriting: A genetic approach to John Berger and Alain Tanner’s screenplays1	0
The false villain method: Applying the vernacular approach to television character development	0
From novel to screenplay: The rewriting of Hurricane Season (2017) by Fernanda Melchor into the screenplay by Elisa Miller (2022)	0
Unfilmed screenplays and artificial intelligence: Jodorowsky’s Dune, technological change and remediation	0
Understanding the collaborative model of narrative in cinematic virtual reality	0
Henson and Juhl’s Tale of Sand: From lost archive to graphic novel and illustrated screenplay	0
Shadow Hollywood: Vertical drama and cross-cultural writing – How new models of drama production are impacting current screen industry practice	0
Filmish energy: A textual analysis of Tony Gilroy’s screenplay, Michael Clayton (2006)	0
Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success, Jon Krampner (2022)	0
Conversations with generative AI as co-writer and screen character: Scripting postdigital intimacies with the Screenwriting with AI Framework	0
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, Maureen Ryan (2023)	0
The accented Japanese screenplay: Transnational currents in contemporary Japanese cinema	0
Detrás de las sombras: Escritoras cinematográficas en el cambio de siglo en México, Maricruz Castro Ricalde and Diego Sheinbaum Lerner (2024)	0
One viable protagonist, one viable choice: Resisting contradictory character change while writing an interactive film	0
Portraying disability with trauma: A case study of documentary screenwriting in presenting visually impaired subject	0
Editorial	0
Race and Entertainment: Reflections on Racism in Film, TV and the Media, Thandi Lubimbi (2024)	0
Scripting the silhouette: Writing around the participant in interactive virtual reality experiences	0
‘Almost unbelievably good’? The measure of (artificial) intelligence in a changing world for screenwriting	0
Editorial	0