One World is Writing

This paper is written to support the film One World is Writing, a short documentary that uses reenactments to depict the life and work of writer Shirley Jackson, while also making connections between Jackson‘s fiction and the filmmaker‘s life. The first section of the paper gives historical and literary context to Jackson‘s work and explains the process of selecting excerpts from her letters and fiction. It also examines the process of pairing Jackson‘s fiction with personal stories from the filmmaker‘s life. The Documentary Relevance section highlights scholarly research related to documentary reenactment and autobiographical filmmaking. Influential documentaries and theatrical productions are also described here. The Methodology section details the technical, artistic, and narrative choices made during the filmmaking process of One World is Writing.