Journal
Duncan, P. (2025). The Glowy: the aesthetics of transparency in postfeminist "wellness" culture (forthcoming).
Feminist Media Studies.
[Journal article]Authored by: Duncan, P.Duncan, P. (2024). The Labor of Spectarship.
In Media Res.
[Journal article]Authored by: Duncan, P.Duncan, P. (2023). COVID Formalism: arrows and the “dis-affordances” of form.
ASAP Journal. (Graphic Formalism) Retrieved from https://asapjournal.com/node/graphic-formalism-covid-19-arrows-and-the-dis-affordances-of-form-pansy-duncan/
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Duncan, P. (2023). "‘Anybody May Look Smart!’: The Smart Aesthetic and Women Film Stars in 1930s Hollywood.
Feminist Media Studies. Published Online First, Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2023.2195591
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Duncan, P. (2022). The dainty: the aesthetics of female film stardom in the transitional period.
Early Popular Visual Culture. 19(4), 324-341 Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17460654.2021.2074945
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Duncan, P. (2022). Towards a natural history of film form: silver salts and the aesthetics of early studio-era Hollywood cinema.
Screen (Oxford). 64(3), 411-426 Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/screen/article/63/4/411/6880136
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Duncan, P. (2020). Celluloid TM: Cecil M. Hepworth, Trick Film and the Material Pre-History of the Plastic Image.
Film History: an international journal. 31(4), 92-111 Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/article/748823
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Duncan, PK. (2020). 'Journeys of Adventure Among its Far-Flung Debris': Three Theories of the Blockbuster Explosion Spectacle.
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. 59(2), 1-22 Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746998
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Duncan, P., & Holm, N. (2018). Cultural Studies, Marxism and the Exile of Aesthetics.
Open Cultural Studies. 2(1), 746-757 Retrieved from https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/culture-2018-0067/html
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Duncan, PK. (2018). Exploded Views: Early Cinema and the Spectacular Logic of the Explosion.
Screen. 59(4), 401-419 Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/screen/article/59/4/401/5253340
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Duncan, PK. (2018). Lights, camera, lumino-politics: Lighting the searchers, from paraffin to LED.
Film-Philosophy. 22(2), 184-202 Retrieved from https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/film.2018.0072
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Duncan, PK. (2017). The uses of hate: On hate as a political category.
M/C Journal. 20(1)
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Duncan, PK. (2017). I drink liberal tears: Genre, desire and the leaky liberal body.
Feminist Media Studies. 17(3), 516-520 Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1304718
[Journal article]Authored by: Duncan, P.Duncan, PK. (2017). Joke work: Comic labour and the aesthetics of the awkward.
Comedy Studies. 8(1), 1-21 Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcos20
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Duncan, PK. (2017). Once more, with Fredric Jameson.
Cultural Critique. 97, 1-23
[Journal article]Authored by: Duncan, P.Duncan, PK. (2016). Stuck on you.
Feminist Formations. 28(2), 112-118 Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/35481
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Duncan, PK. (2015). Bored and Boringer: Avant-garde and trash in Harmony Korine's Gummo.
Textual Practice. 29(4), 717-743
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Duncan, PK. (2014). The cinematic life of the implosion.
Film Quarterly. 68(2), 37-47
[Journal article]Authored by: Duncan, P.Duncan, PK. (2014). Cute studies.
Cultural Studies Review. 20(1), 327-334
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Duncan, PK. (2014). Taking the smooth with the rough: Texture, emotion and the other postmodernism.
PMLA. 129(2), 204-222
[Journal article]Authored by: Duncan, P.Duncan, PK. (2013). Corey Haim and the 'Homeless Celebrity': Rock Bottom on Rodeo Drive.
Celebrity Studies. 4(2), 241-244
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Duncan, PK. (2011). Tears, Melodrama and 'Heterosensibility' in Letter from an Unknown Woman.
Screen. 52(2), 173-192
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Book
Duncan, P. (2025). The Disintegration Effect. In J. Lewis (Ed.)
The Oxford Handbook of American Film History. : Oxford University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Duncan, P.Molloy, M., Duncan, P., & Henry, C.(2023).
Screening the Posthuman. Oxford: Oxford University Press
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[Reference Book]Authored by: Duncan, P.Duncan, P. (2022). A Theory of the Medium Shot: Affective Mapping and the Logic of the Encounter in Fredric Jameson’s The Geopolitical Aesthetic. In KB. Wagner, J. Szaniawski, & M. Cramer (Eds.)
Fredric Jameson and Film Theory: Space, Representation and Allegory in a Globalizing Age. New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America: Rutgers University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Duncan, P.Duncan, P. (2020). Fade to Crude: Petro-Horror in The Shining. In J. Szaniawski (Ed.)
After Kubrick: A Filmmaker's Legacy. (pp. 179 - 194). London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing
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Duncan, PK. (2016). Shrubs and the city: Urban plant life in rear window. In P. Viera, M. Gagliano, & J. Ryan (Eds.)
The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World. (pp. 219 - 232). Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield
[Chapter]Authored by: Duncan, P.Duncan, PK.(2015).
The emotional life of postmodern film: Affect theory's other. : Routledge
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Conference
Henry, C., Molloy, M., & Duncan, P.
Contemporary Screen Culture’s Fascination with the Posthuman. . online
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Taffel, SA., Holm, N., Duncan, P., Veale, K., Huffer, I., & Randell-Moon, H.(2017, December). Cultures of Capitalism: CSAA 2017.
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[Conference]Authored by: Duncan, P., Holm, N., Huffer, I., Taffel, S., Veale, K.Duncan, PK. (2017, July). Fractal fallout: The digital effects explosion spectacle. Presented at
Film-Philosophy. Lancaster, England.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Duncan, P.Duncan, PK. (2017, June). Exploded views: Early cinema and the spectacular logic of the explosion. Presented at
Screen Studies Conference 2017. Glasgow, Scotland.
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Duncan, PK. (2015, June). Urban Plant Life in Cinematic New York. Presented at
Screen Studies 2015: Screening Animals and the Inhuman
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Duncan, PK. (2013, September). Affect Theory’s Face. Presented at
On Violence: Rethinking Humanities and Social Sciences Conference. University of Zadar, Croatia.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Duncan, P.Duncan, PK. (2012, June). Bored and Boringer: Avant-Garde and Trash in Gummo. Presented at
Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference 2012 (POPCAANZ),. Melbourne, Australia.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Duncan, P.Duncan, PK. (2010, June). The Spectator Who Knew Too Much: Knowledge and Knowingness in Rushmore. Presented at
Visual Literacies. Oxford, UK.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Duncan, P.Duncan, PK. (2005, November). Old Wounds. Presented at
The Bone People After Twenty Years. Victoria University, Wellington.
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