[Commlist] Journal of Screenwriting 17.2 published - Special Issue: ‘Documentary Storytelling: Crafting Reality through Screenwriting and Fictional Story Devices’

Intellect is pleased to present Journal of Screenwriting 17.2!


Special Issue: ‘Documentary Storytelling: Crafting Reality through 
Screenwriting and Fictional Story Devices’


Guest Edited by Levi Dean, Sadia Jamil, Simon Weaving and Thomas William 
Whyke.


This Special Issue examines screenwriting and fictional storytelling 
devices within the context of documentary filmmaking from a global 
perspective, exploring a range of practices from those found on 
mainstream streaming services to those developed in first-person 
documentary work.


For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-screenwriting 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-screenwriting>


Aims & Scope


TheJournal of Screenwritingis an international double-anonymized 
peer-reviewed journal published three times per year. The journal 
highlights current academic and professional thinking about the 
screenplay – in all its forms and guises – and stimulates debate about 
contemporary and historical screenwriting practices, as well as the 
teaching of screenwriting and training of screenwriters. The journal is 
committed to research that represents a truly global perspective. The 
journal is discursive, critical and rigorous, and is inclusive of all 
forms of research and scholarship in what is a dynamic and developing field.


This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Arts & 
Humanities Citation Index (AHCI).


Issue 17.2


Editorial


Documentary storytelling: Crafting reality through screenwriting and 
fictional story devices 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/josc_00209_2>

LEVI DEAN, SADIA JAMIL, SIMON WEAVING AND THOMAS WILLIAM WHYKE


Articles


True-crime storytelling: Crafting reality through fictional narrative 
devices 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/josc_00203_1>

SEAN MAHER AND SUE CAKE


Scripting the past: Narration and historical re-enactment in long-form 
documentary – A casestudy of Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War (2024) 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/josc_00206_1>(OPEN 
ACCESS)

SIMON WEAVING, LEVI DEAN AND THOMAS WILLIAM WHYKE


First-person documentary, essay film, fiction and documentary 
screenwriting: The case ofWelcome Back, Farewell (2021) 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/josc_00208_1>

MARCOS YOSHI


Finding the story in Love Opera (2020) 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/josc_00204_1>

MARGARET MCVEIGH


Interweaving sociopolitical realities and fiction: Adapting real events 
into dramatic structures in The 37th State 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/josc_00205_1>

NICODEMUS ADAI PATRICK


Fictional narratives from surveillance: Dragonfly Eyes (2017) and the 
reimagining reality of CCTV 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/josc_00207_1>

SHUO YANG AND RUOHAN TANG


Book Review


Trip to the Moon: Understanding the True Power of Story, John Yorke 
(2026) <https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/josc_00211_5>

CHRIS NEILAN
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