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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, Alison Peirse (ed.) (2020)	20
How we role: The collaborative role-playing poetics of the Secret Story Network	5
Editorial	3
Textual perspectives: Screenwriting styles, modes and languages	3
The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Donna Rifkin (2020)	3
Editorial	3
Representing the child-free woman in the twenty-first century biopic	3
Meeting old friends for the first time: A personal reflection on the development of the Screenwriting Research Network	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
Fear and wonderment in a limitless world: Learning to write from a child’s point of view	2
Crafting characters: Screenplay archives from a star-studies perspective (Love Is My Profession, Claude Autant-Lara, 1958)	2
How backstory and direct address reformulate the Shakespearean character on television: The case of the missing psychological motivation for House of Cards’ Frank Underwood	2
The power of schism: Unconventional narrative structure in No Country for Old Men	2
In Custody: From written text to audio-visual discourse through a postcolonial lens	2
Arc analysis: Redefining character arcs for ‘constant’ characters	2
The economic case for equality in screenplays: The Bechdel test, female dialogue and box office revenue	2
Script Development: Critical Approaches, Creative Practices, International Perspectives, Craig Batty and Stayci Taylor (eds) (2021)	1
Teaching screenwriting from the inside out: The importance of writers’ inner, emotional discoveries in understanding the tools of screenwriting	1
Screenwriting is Filmmaking: The Theory and Practice of Writing for the Screen, Brian Dunnigan (2019)	1
Investigating a cinematic virtual reality narrative framework for screenwriting	1
Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue, Monika Bednarek (2018)	1
Catalysing Elastextity in adaptation screenwriting: The motivic chronotope of liminality	1
Little cinemas: Eugene O’Neill as screenwriter	1
Abitibi360: An example of the evolution of writing for 360-degree films	1
Scripting the silhouette: Writing around the participant in interactive virtual reality experiences	1

Portraying disability with trauma: A case study of documentary screenwriting in presenting visually impaired subject	1
Editorial	1
Directory of World Cinema: Africa, Blandine Stefanson and Sheila Petty (eds) (2014)	1
Refocus: The Films of Lawrence Kasdan, Brett Davies (2024)	1
The deliberated decision in children’s mainstream cinema: On socialization in the discourse of freedom	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
The accented Japanese screenplay: Transnational currents in contemporary Japanese cinema	1
Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness, Agnieszka Piotrowska (ed.) (2020)	1
Scripting Bollywood, Anubha Yadav (2021)	1
Report from the 2024 Screenwriting Research Network Conference	1
Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men, Phil Rosenzweig (2021)	1
Introduction: Trauma, screenwriting and suffering – Beyond the gospel of story	1
Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal: Cannibalizing the canon	1
Children’s fiction and anime: The case of Shōkōjo Sēra	1
Robert De Niro at Work From Screenplay to Screen Performance, Adam Ganz and Steven Price (2020)	1
Piloting audience emotion for the television anti-heroine: Gender and immorality	1
Character composition: A new framework for TV serial drama characters	1
Inclusive Screenwriting for Film and Television, Jess King (2022)	0
Erratum	0
Writing for instructional screens: Expanding the scope for screenwriting practitioners	0
Narrative structures in Colombian fictional web series published on YouTube	0
A Screenwriter’s Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement, Joseph Dougherty (2022)	0
June Mathis: The master class	0
Screenwriter: The Life and Times of Nunnally Johnson, Tom Stempel (1980)	0
Editorial	0
The Country Boy: Investigating the Dennis Potter Archive, Forest of Dean, England	0
‘Do animals talk in this dimension? ’Cos I don’t wanna freak anyone out’: Writing for children’s animation	0
Stand-up comedy to the screen: A satirical autoethnographic approach	0
Prototyping first-person viewer positions for VR narratives with storyboards and pilot productions	0
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears, Michael Schulman (2023)	0
From novel to screenplay: The rewriting of Hurricane Season (2017) by Fernanda Melchor into the screenplay by Elisa Miller (2022)	0
Henson and Juhl’s Tale of Sand: From lost archive to graphic novel and illustrated screenplay	0
The not so universal hero’s journey	0
Editorial	0
Roundtable: Pushing the boundaries of the Screenwriting Research Network	0
What we cannot see in Sound of Metal and Her Smell: Interplays of awareness, perspective and language in the screenplay text	0
John Waters: Pope of Trash, Jenny He and Dara Jaffe (eds) (2023)	0
Reading the docufiction script: Harnessing the thin line between facts and fiction	0
Understanding the collaborative model of narrative in cinematic virtual reality	0
Theme orientation and the inevitable outcome of structural flaws: Investigating the results of the dominance of theme over action in Farhadi’s The Salesman	0
Scene Writing: The Missing Manual for Screenwriters, Chris Perry and Eric Henry Sanders (2022)	0
Filmish energy: A textual analysis of Tony Gilroy’s screenplay, Michael Clayton (2006)	0
Writing Women for Film and Televison: A Guide to Creating Complex Female Characters, Anna Weinstein (2024)	0
A Tale from Constantinople: The History of a Film that Never Was, Bo Florin and Patrick Vonderau (2019)	0
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, Maureen Ryan (2023)	0
Rethinking screenwriting credits and the unproduced screenplay: Innovative approaches to accreditation using the script reading as an output	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
Scripted resonance or lost in translation? Storytelling and Chinese reception of Everything Everywhere All at Once	0
Adaptation screenplays as performance texts: Axiological linguistic acts in a case of Basque writing	0

Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author’s Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development, K. M. Weiland (2016)	0
Editorial	0
Creating Australian Television Drama: A Screenwriting History, Susan Lever (2020)	0
The stuff that dreams are made of: The Maltese Falcon and the art of adapted screenwriting	0
Why The Knockout (2023) became a phenomenal hit: A contextual analysis and interview with screenwriter Zhu Junyi1	0
William Faulkner in Hollywood: Screenwriting for the Studios, Stefan Solomon (2017)	0
Procession: The role of screenwriting and filmmaking in the healing process of survivors	0
Just dancing with ideology? The role of dramaturgs within the socialist mode of children’s film development	0
Editorial	0
The biopic screenplay as a research output: Towards a working definition of narrative fiction filmmaking methodology	0
Detrás de las sombras: Escritoras cinematográficas en el cambio de siglo en México, Maricruz Castro Ricalde and Diego Sheinbaum Lerner (2024)	0
Conceptualizing and developing narrative-based virtual reality experiences: A review of disciplinary frameworks and approaches to research	0
Editorial	0
Screenwriting research in Australia: A truncated (pre)history	0
Bringing queerness to the surface: Truman Capote’s November 1971 screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby	0
Alternative Scriptwriting: Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen, Ken Dancyger, Jessie Keyt and Jeff Rush (2023), 6th ed.	0
Editorial	0
Script Analysis: Deconstructing Screenplay Fundamentals, James Bang (2022)	0
Shadow Hollywood: Vertical drama and cross-cultural writing – How new models of drama production are impacting current screen industry practice	0
Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success, Jon Krampner (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
Renegotiating the screenplay: Drawing as a method for narrative development in a short film	0
Art in the ‘big print’: An examination and exercises for cinematic prose writing style	0
Just a story: Framing trauma within screenwriting practice	0
Editorial	0
Shifting landscapes in the post-TV era: Impact of the streaming wave on Spanish screenwriters	0
Tatiana Huezo: Trauma and the poetics of displacement	0
The Science of Writing Characters, Kira-Anne Pelican (2020)	0
In defence of deus ex machina	0
Discontinuous aesthetics as a result of collaborative screenwriting: A genetic approach to John Berger and Alain Tanner’s screenplays1	0
Beyond the Hero’s Journey: Creating Powerful and Original Character Arcs for the Screen, Anthony Mullins (2022)	0
The Modernist Screenplay: Experimental Writing for the Silent Film, Alexandra Ksenofontova (2020)	0
Rethinking our protagonists: Absence on screen and meta-narratives of empire	0
Jenő Janovics: Michel Curtiz’s first screenwriter	0
Do the Right Thing: Storytelling Secrets of Five Screenplays That Embrace Diversity, Karla Fuller (2023)	0
Collaborating on The Translator: The aesthetics and politics of screenwriting	0
Women, Ageing and the Screen Industries: Falling Off a Cliff?, Susan Liddy (ed.) (2023)	0
Spinning and singing: Exploring memory and gender non-conformity through screenwriting for publication first	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
Backwards & In Heels: The Past, Present and Future of Women Working in Film, Alicia Malone (2017)	0
Race and Entertainment: Reflections on Racism in Film, TV and the Media, Thandi Lubimbi (2024)	0
‘I wasn’t open to notes’: S. Craig Zahler, Dragged Across Concrete (2018) and the 157-page screenplay	0
Royals Next Door: Team writing for children on Zoom	0
Re-defining the Character Arc through Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality	0
Hauntological screenwriting: Reflections on writing Render	0
Writing inclusive and diverse children’s television: Transgender representation in ABC Australia’s First Day	0