J.J. Murphy has had his work screened at prestigious showcases, film festivals, and major art museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Anthology Film Archives, the Museum of the Moving Image, the National Gallery of Art, The Austrian Film Museum (Vienna), The Barbican Film Centre (London), and the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris).
He has published articles in such journals as Film Culture, Film Quarterly, Millennium Film Journal, and the Journal of Screenwriting. His creative process has allowed him to speculate in narrative filmmaking in new and interesting ways, which led to his well-received book on cinema practice Me and You and Memento and Fargo: How Independent Screenplays Work (Continuum, 2007) and The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol (University of California Press, 2012), the first comprehensive study of the films of the noted Pop artist.
Murphy is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Screenwriting and the advisory board of International Screenwriting Network. He is an editor of the new Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting series, and he teaches film production, screenwriting, and film studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.