| Talking film, talking identity: New Zealand expatriates reflect on national film D Thornley European Journal of Cultural Studies 12 (1), 99-117, 2009 | 18 | 2009 |
| White, Brown or" Coffee"? Revisioning Race in Tamahori's" Once were Warriors" D Thornley Film Criticism 25 (3), 22-36, 2001 | 13 | 2001 |
| Wellywood and Peter Jackson: The local reception of The Lord of the Rings in Wellington, New Zealand D Thornley The Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context, London and New …, 2006 | 9 | 2006 |
| Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism: Filming on an Uneven Field D Thornley Springer, 2014 | 8 | 2014 |
| Breaking with English: the nation as ethnoscape D Thornley National Identities 6 (1), 61-76, 2004 | 8 | 2004 |
| ImagineNATIVE Film+ Media Arts Festival: Collaborative Criticism through Curatorship D Thornley Activist Film Festivals: Towards a Political Subject, 199-213, 2017 | 7 | 2017 |
| The consequences of cultural difference: the international medical graduate journey in New Zealand MM Mannes, DJ Thornley, TJ Wilkinson International journal of medical education 14, 43, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
| ‘From a Maori point of view to look at a Maori film’ Maori New Zealanders talk about watching indigenous films D Thornley Journal of International Communication 17 (2), 107-120, 2011 | 6 | 2011 |
| Indivisible: Mäori-Päkehä hybridity in Aotearoa New Zealand cinema D Thornley The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004 | 6 | 2004 |
| Duel or Duet? Gendered Nationalism in" The Piano" D Thornley Film Criticism 24 (3), 61-76, 2000 | 6 | 2000 |
| True Event Adaptation D Thornley, D Thornley, Aboujieb Springer International Publishing, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| Mobilizing Māori identity: cultural capital and expatriate “portable personhood” D Thornley Palgrave Communications 1 (1), 1-6, 2015 | 5 | 2015 |
| Māori identity by way of New Zealand film or why ‘I don't have to be a particular skin colour to feel beige’ D Thornley Studies in Australasian Cinema 6 (2), 203-215, 2012 | 5 | 2012 |
| Executing the Commoners: Examining Class in Heavenly Creatures D Thornley na, 2002 | 3 | 2002 |
| Playing with Land Issues: Subversive Hybridity in The Price of Milk D Thornley Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context, 301-13, 2015 | 2 | 2015 |
| Conceptions of Empire: Three Colonial War Films D Thornley Quarterly Review of Film and Video 21 (2), 107-117, 2004 | 2 | 2004 |
| The Dixie and the Carolina: Fifty years in the moviegoing history of a southern city. D Thornley Film International (16516826) 18 (2), 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| Introduction: Scripting Real Lives D Thornley True Event Adaptation: Scripting Real Lives, 3-10, 2018 | 1 | 2018 |
| “A Space Being Right on That Boundary”: Critiquing Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand Cinema D Thornley, D Thornley Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism: Filming on an Uneven …, 2014 | 1 | 2014 |
| Cross-cultural code-switching–the impact on international medical graduates in New Zealand MM Mannes, DJ Thornley, TJ Wilkinson BMC Medical Education 23 (1), 920, 2023 | | 2023 |
