McNally, Karen (2022) American television during a television presidency. Contemporary approaches to film and media . Wayne State University Press, Detroit. ISBN 9780814349366
McNally, Karen (2022) The political is personal: disturbing form, revisiting liberalism and resisting Trump's America in The Good Fight. In: American television during a television presidency. Contemporary approaches to film and media . Wayne State University Press, Detroit. ISBN 9780814349359
McNally, Karen (2022) Book review : Musicals at the margins: genre, boundaries, canons. Studies in Musical Theatre, 16 (2). pp. 153-155. ISSN 1750-3167
McNally, Karen (2022) Donald Trump, the presidency and the media. European Journal of American Culture, 41 (2). pp. 105-107. ISSN 1758-9118
McNally, Karen (2022) Nixon, Trump and Washington behind closed doors: fictionalizing Watergate and the prescience of the historical miniseries. European Journal of American Culture, 41 (2). pp. 127-146. ISSN 1466-0407
McNally, Karen (2020) The stardom film: creating the Hollywood fairy tale. Short cuts . Columbia University Press, New York, United States. ISBN 9780231851145
McNally, Karen (2020) "Play real pretty for the people": Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis Jr. and racial politics in Hollywood's post-war jazz musicals. In: The Politics of Hollywood Musicals. Presses de Paris Nanterre, Paris. ISBN 9782840163497
McNally, Karen (2019) The legacy of Mad Men: cultural history, intermediality and American television. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9783030310912
McNally, Karen and Forde, Teresa (2019) Afterword: Reading Mad Men in the era of Trump. In: The Legacy of Mad Men: Cultural History, Intermediality and American Television. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 251-262. ISBN 9783030310905
McNally, Karen (2018) The disruptive presence of African-American performers in the Hollywood musical. Positif (692). pp. 108-111. ISSN 0048-4911
McNally, Karen (2016) Featuring the Nicholas Brothers: spectacle, structure and racial interventions in the Hollywood musical. In: Star Turns in Hollywood Musicals. Presses du Reel, Dijon, France, pp. 80-97. ISBN 978-2-84066-971-5
McNally, Karen (2015) Sinatra's films shattered the postwar myth of the white American male. The Conversation.
McNally, Karen (2012) Hollywood Stars vs Variety Show Hosts: The incompatible case of Frank Sinatra on 1950s Television. European Journal of American Culture, 31 (2). pp. 107-121. ISSN 14660407