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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The not so universal hero’s journey13
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
Serial offenders? Defining the boundaries of series and serial TV for screenwriting practice and theory4
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
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
Editorial2
Roundtable: Pushing the boundaries of the Screenwriting Research Network2
TV miniseries or long-form film? A narrative analysis of The Haunting of Hill House2
Spinning and singing: Exploring memory and gender non-conformity through screenwriting for publication first2
Battle of the sketches: Short form and feminism in the comedy mode2
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
Renegotiating the screenplay: Drawing as a method for narrative development in a short film2
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
Writing/performing myself on-screen: Daniel Monks’ memory work on film1
Piloting audience emotion for the television anti-heroine: Gender and immorality1
Bringing queerness to the surface: Truman Capote’s November 1971 screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby1
Catalysing Elastextity in adaptation screenwriting: The motivic chronotope of liminality1
What we cannot see in Sound of Metal and Her Smell: Interplays of awareness, perspective and language in the screenplay text1
‘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
Editorial1
The biopic screenplay as a research output: Towards a working definition of narrative fiction filmmaking methodology1
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 for instructional screens: Expanding the scope for screenwriting practitioners1
Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men, Phil Rosenzweig (2021)1
Rethinking our protagonists: Absence on screen and meta-narratives of empire1
Collaborative self-translation in the screenplays of The Godfather trilogy1
Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal: Cannibalizing the canon1
Just dancing with ideology? The role of dramaturgs within the socialist mode of children’s film development1
‘Polite, no chill’ for the win: How Emily Andras engaged fans and overcame problematic tropes in Wynonna Earp1
Who is the author of Neria (1992) – and is it a Zimbabwean masterpiece or a neo-colonial enterprise?1
Children’s fiction and anime: The case of Shōkōjo Sēra1
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
How narrative techniques attract young parents: The refiguration of Logger Vick in the Chinese 3D animated film, Boonie Bears: To the Rescue1
The power of schism: Unconventional narrative structure in No Country for Old Men1
Tang Cheng: The first female animation screenwriter and director in the People’s Republic of China1
How we role: The collaborative role-playing poetics of the Secret Story Network1
Hauntological screenwriting: Reflections on writing Render1
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
The case for team-based learning in higher education scriptwriting programmes: A narrative literature review1
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
The deliberated decision in children’s mainstream cinema: On socialization in the discourse of freedom1
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