Book chapter: Jeni Thornley, ‘The enigma of film: memory film: a filmmaker’s diary‘, Constructions of The Real: Intersections of Practice and Theory in Documentary-Based Filmmaking, (eds.) K. Munro et al., Intellect Books Series: Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education, 2023.
In Press: Book chapter: ‘“We are not dead”: Decolonizing the Frame’ – First Australians, The Tall Man, Coniston, First Contact (ed.) E. Blackmore et al., The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film. Routledge, 2024.
Essay: ‘Looking at Women’, Peephole Journal , Issue 7, 2017. Writing on making short film Still Life (Thornley& Ross, 1974 ), I investigate our “original intention of challenging the male gaze”. Critiqued at the time for perpetuating sexual objectification of the female body, I counter this, arguing for the film’s ‘collaborative gaze’, one that is shared by the women behind and in front of the camera”.
Book Chapter: ‘Island Home Country: On the possibility of praxis between “artefact” and “exegesis” in the creative arts doctorate : a case study’, eds., L. Ravelli et al, Doctoral Writing in the Creative and Performing Arts: the researcher/practitioner nexus (Libri, UK 2014).
PHD thesis: ‘Island Home Country’– Subversive mourning: working with Aboriginal protocols in a documentary film about colonisation and growing up white in Tasmania. A cine-essay and exegesis (online) https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/36070
Review: ‘The eye of the camera: Ethnographic documentary and the Aperture Festival’, Metro Media & Education Magazine, Issue 181, Sept.2014.
Essay : ‘Islands of possibility: Film-making, cultural practice, political action and the decolonization of Tasmanian history’, Studies in Australasian Cinema, Decolonizing Screens, 7.2: 2013.
Review: “The ethnography of compassion: documentary in Vietnam”, Realtime #13 2013.
Book Review: Review of “Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács”, in Screening The Past, 2012.
TV Series Review: Go back to where you came from: Reality TV encounters the refugee crisis, The Conversation, June 2011.
Book Review: ‘Australia Documentary: History Practices and Genres’, Trish FitzSimons et al, Cambridge UP, 2011, Metro Magazine, No 173, 2011.
Book Chapter: Island Home Country, ‘Working with Aboriginal protocols in a documentary film about colonisation and growing up white in Tasmania’, in Eds. Peters-Little, Curthoys & Docker, ’Passionate Histories Myth, Memory and Indigenous Australia’, (Aboriginal History Monograph 21 ANU Press, 2010.
Also see various essays on my blog: Documentary, including, Intertextuality in Margot Nash’s ‘The Silences’; Journey Among Women #metoo
L-R Nell Campbell, Robyn Moase, Tom Cowan, Rose Lilley, Peter Gailey, Jeni Thornley, Journey Among Women, 1976.