Journal of Screenwriting

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Screenwriting is 1. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
How we role: The collaborative role-playing poetics of the Secret Story Network6
Textual perspectives: Screenwriting styles, modes and languages4
Representing the child-free woman in the twenty-first century biopic4
Editorial3
The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Donna Rifkin (2020)3
Script development: Writing beyond Hollywood2
The power of schism: Unconventional narrative structure in No Country for Old Men2
Arc analysis: Redefining character arcs for ‘constant’ characters2
Editorial2
In Custody: From written text to audio-visual discourse through a postcolonial lens2
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
The dramatization of the shepherd warrior in Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine and the Jordanian drama Bedouin series Rās Ghlaiṣ (‘The head of Ghlaiṣ’)2
Directory of World Cinema: Africa, Blandine Stefanson and Sheila Petty (eds) (2014)1
Introduction: Trauma, screenwriting and suffering – Beyond the gospel of story1
Catalysing Elastextity in adaptation screenwriting: The motivic chronotope of liminality1
The accented Japanese screenplay: Transnational currents in contemporary Japanese cinema1
Character composition: A new framework for TV serial drama characters1
The economic case for equality in screenplays: The Bechdel test, female dialogue and box office revenue1
The case for team-based learning in higher education scriptwriting programmes: A narrative literature review1
Stories we sell: Intellectual property, ownership and the impact on Canadian screenwriters1
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
Teaching screenwriting from the inside out: The importance of writers’ inner, emotional discoveries in understanding the tools of screenwriting1
Screenwriting is Filmmaking: The Theory and Practice of Writing for the Screen, Brian Dunnigan (2019)1
En Cas De Malheur, De Simenon A Autant-Lara (1956-1958): Essai De Genetique Scenaristique, Alain Boillat (2020)11
Investigating a cinematic virtual reality narrative framework for screenwriting1
Refocus: The Films of Lawrence Kasdan, Brett Davies (2024)1
Report from the 2024 Screenwriting Research Network Conference1
Piloting audience emotion for the television anti-heroine: Gender and immorality1
Portraying disability with trauma: A case study of documentary screenwriting in presenting visually impaired subject1
How backstory and direct address reformulate the Shakespearean character on television: The case of the missing psychological motivation for House of Cards’ Frank Underwood1
Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal: Cannibalizing the canon1
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