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| Apocalypse man: The death drive and the rhetoric of white masculine victimhood CR Kelly The Ohio State University Press, 2020 | 84 | 2020 |
| The man-pocalpyse: Doomsday Preppers and the rituals of apocalyptic manhood CR Kelly Text and Performance Quarterly 36 (2-3), 95-114, 2016 | 78 | 2016 |
| The Post-Nuclear Family and the Depoliticization of Unplanned Pregnancy in Knocked Up, Juno, and Waitress K Hoerl, CR Kelly Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 7 (4), 360-380, 2010 | 49 | 2010 |
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| Incels, compulsory sexuality, and fascist masculinity CR Kelly, C Aunspach Feminist formations 32 (3), 145-172, 2020 | 45 | 2020 |
| Food television and otherness in the age of globalization CR Kelly Lexington Books, 2017 | 45 | 2017 |
| Camp Horror and the Gendered Politics of Screen Violence: Subverting the Monstrous-Feminine in Teeth (2007) CR Kelly Women's Studies in Communication 39 (1), 86-106, 2016 | 44 | 2016 |
| Genesis in hyperreality: Legitimizing disingenuous controversy at the creation museum CR Kelly, KE Hoerl Argumentation and Advocacy 48 (3), 123-141, 2012 | 44 | 2012 |
| The wounded man: Foxcatcher and the incoherence of white masculine victimhood CR Kelly Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 15 (2), 161-178, 2018 | 40 | 2018 |
| Détournement, decolonization, and the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969–1971) CR Kelly Rhetoric Society Quarterly 44 (2), 168-190, 2014 | 40 | 2014 |
| Abstinence cinema: Virginity and the rhetoric of sexual purity in contemporary film CR Kelly Rutgers University Press, 2016 | 37 | 2016 |
| “We Are Not Free”: The Meaning of in American Indian Resistance to President Johnson's War on Poverty CR Kelly Communication Quarterly 62 (4), 455-473, 2014 | 35 | 2014 |
| Neocolonialism and the Global Prison in National Geographic's Locked Up Abroad C Kelly Critical Studies in Media Communication 29 (4), 331-347, 2012 | 31 | 2012 |
| It Follows: precarity, thanatopolitics, and the ambient horror film CR Kelly Critical studies in media communication 34 (3), 234-249, 2017 | 30 | 2017 |
| Blood-speak: Ward Churchill and the racialization of American Indian identity CR Kelly Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 8 (3), 240-265, 2011 | 25 | 2011 |
| Orwellian language and the politics of tribal termination (1953–1960) CR Kelly Western Journal of Communication 74 (4), 351-371, 2010 | 25 | 2010 |
| The Toxic Screen: Visions of Petrochemical America in HBO's True Detective (2014) CR Kelly Communication, Culture & Critique 10 (1), 39-57, 2017 | 24 | 2017 |
| Cooking without women: The rhetoric of the new culinary male CR Kelly Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 12 (2), 200-204, 2015 | 21 | 2015 |
| Women's Rhetorical Agency in the American West: The New Penelope CR Kelly Women's Studies in Communication 32 (2), 203-231, 2009 | 21 | 2009 |
