Journal of Screenwriting

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.)
ArticleCitations
Textual perspectives: Screenwriting styles, modes and languages5
Beyond textual fidelity: Creator interactions, professional boundaries and cultural hierarchies in Israel’s youth media adaptation system4
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 biopic3
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 Hollywood2
In Custody: From written text to audio-visual discourse through a postcolonial lens2
Editorial2
Editorial2
Neither artificial nor intelligent: Applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and creative machine learning in screenwriting and screen story development in the Charismatic Consortium2
Report from the 2024 Screenwriting Research Network Conference1
Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal: Cannibalizing the canon1
The power of schism: Unconventional narrative structure in No Country for Old Men1
Refocus: The Films of Lawrence Kasdan, Brett Davies (2024)1
Introduction: Trauma, screenwriting and suffering – Beyond the gospel of story1
Editorial1
The economic case for equality in screenplays: The Bechdel test, female dialogue and box office revenue1
En Cas De Malheur, De Simenon A Autant-Lara (1956-1958): Essai De Genetique Scenaristique, Alain Boillat (2020)11
The case for team-based learning in higher education scriptwriting programmes: A narrative literature review1
Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men, Phil Rosenzweig (2021)1
Arc analysis: Redefining character arcs for ‘constant’ characters1
How backstory and direct address reformulate the Shakespearean character on television: The case of the missing psychological motivation for House of Cards’ Frank Underwood1
Investigating a cinematic virtual reality narrative framework for screenwriting1
Stories we sell: Intellectual property, ownership and the impact on Canadian screenwriters1
Editorial0
Collaborating on The Translator: The aesthetics and politics of screenwriting0
Procession: The role of screenwriting and filmmaking in the healing process of survivors0
Tatiana Huezo: Trauma and the poetics of displacement0
Harnessing artificial intelligence for screenplay translation: A practice-based study on English-to-Korean screenplay adaptation0
Spinning and singing: Exploring memory and gender non-conformity through screenwriting for publication first0
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 films0
Reading the docufiction script: Harnessing the thin line between facts and fiction0
Inclusive Screenwriting for Film and Television, Jess King (2022)0
Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success, Jon Krampner (2022)0
SRN and Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy festival 2025 – A critical-creative report0
Shifting landscapes in the post-TV era: Impact of the streaming wave on Spanish screenwriters0
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, Maureen Ryan (2023)0
Prototyping first-person viewer positions for VR narratives with storyboards and pilot productions0
What we cannot see in Sound of Metal and Her Smell: Interplays of awareness, perspective and language in the screenplay text0
One viable protagonist, one viable choice: Resisting contradictory character change while writing an interactive film0
Script development and audience influences: Towards a typology of audience-making practices0
Editorial0
Race and Entertainment: Reflections on Racism in Film, TV and the Media, Thandi Lubimbi (2024)0
Conceptualizing and developing narrative-based virtual reality experiences: A review of disciplinary frameworks and approaches to research0
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears, Michael Schulman (2023)0
Writing and Producing for Children and Young Audiences: Cases from Danish Film and Television, Eva Novrup Redvall (2024)0
Piloting audience emotion for the television anti-heroine: Gender and immorality0
Editorial0
Character composition: A new framework for TV serial drama characters0
The Country Boy: Investigating the Dennis Potter Archive, Forest of Dean, England0
Narrative structures in Colombian fictional web series published on YouTube0
Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author’s Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development, K. M. Weiland (2016)0
Scripted resonance or lost in translation? Storytelling and Chinese reception of Everything Everywhere All at Once0
Adaptation screenplays as performance texts: Axiological linguistic acts in a case of Basque writing0
Rethinking screenwriting credits and the unproduced screenplay: Innovative approaches to accreditation using the script reading as an output0
Just a story: Framing trauma within screenwriting practice0
Re-defining the Character Arc through Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality0
Do the Right Thing: Storytelling Secrets of Five Screenplays That Embrace Diversity, Karla Fuller (2023)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 screenplays10
Artificial intelligence use in screenwriting programmes in US and UK higher education: An exploratory research report0
The false villain method: Applying the vernacular approach to television character development0
From novel to screenplay: The rewriting of Hurricane Season (2017) by Fernanda Melchor into the screenplay by Elisa Miller (2022)0
Comedy screenwriting and mental health0
Unfilmed screenplays and artificial intelligence: Jodorowsky’s Dune, technological change and remediation0
Henson and Juhl’s Tale of Sand: From lost archive to graphic novel and illustrated screenplay0
When Buffy saved the world: Looking back on a quarter century in Sunnydale0
Understanding the collaborative model of narrative in cinematic virtual reality0
Filmish energy: A textual analysis of Tony Gilroy’s screenplay, Michael Clayton (2006)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 Service0
Shadow Hollywood: Vertical drama and cross-cultural writing – How new models of drama production are impacting current screen industry practice0
The accented Japanese screenplay: Transnational currents in contemporary Japanese cinema0
Conversations with generative AI as co-writer and screen character: Scripting postdigital intimacies with the Screenwriting with AI Framework0
Portraying disability with trauma: A case study of documentary screenwriting in presenting visually impaired subject0
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 experiences0
Editorial0
Editorial0
‘Almost unbelievably good’? The measure of (artificial) intelligence in a changing world for screenwriting0
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 practices0
We need to talk about Lynne: Modular structure as a reflection of the traumatized psyche in We Need to Talk about Kevin0
Web series written by women and targeting female audiences: An exploratory analysis of narrative practices in a cross-cultural context0
Writing Women for Film and Televison: A Guide to Creating Complex Female Characters, Anna Weinstein (2024)0
Echoes in the Overlook: Uncovering hidden patterns in Kubrick’s The Shining0
Script Analysis: Deconstructing Screenplay Fundamentals, James Bang (2022)0
Why The Knockout (2023) became a phenomenal hit: A contextual analysis and interview with screenwriter Zhu Junyi10
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 u0
Stand-up comedy to the screen: A satirical autoethnographic approach0
Women, Ageing and the Screen Industries: Falling Off a Cliff?, Susan Liddy (ed.) (2023)0
The stuff that dreams are made of: The Maltese Falcon and the art of adapted screenwriting0
John Waters: Pope of Trash, Jenny He and Dara Jaffe (eds) (2023)0
Bringing queerness to the surface: Truman Capote’s November 1971 screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby0
Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage and Screen, David Crespy (2024)0
Rethinking our protagonists: Absence on screen and meta-narratives of empire0
William Faulkner in Hollywood: Screenwriting for the Studios, Stefan Solomon (2017)0
Teaching screenwriting from the inside out: The importance of writers’ inner, emotional discoveries in understanding the tools of screenwriting0
Redefining roles: Human–AI collaboration in screenwriting0
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