Superhero comics books’ reliance on revision has been discussed but the role of gender in relation to these concepts such is yet be explored. This paper examines first story arc Kelly Sue DeConnick’s acclaimed comic book series Captain Marvel (2012) through interrogative lens postfeminist culture, considering how past and present collided within relaunching popular superheroine Ms. (Carol Danve...

Abstract Naples in the 1990s enjoyed an extraordinary period of urban and cultural renewal known as ‘Neapolitan Renaissance’. This article addresses two novels – Giuseppe Montesano’s Di questa vita menzognera (2003) Ruggero Cappuccio’s Fuoco su Napoli (2010) which alert us to utopianism ‘symbolic politics’ Neapolitan Renaissance its vulnerability exploitation. Lending credence idea that utopian...

This analysis extends the tools of statistical analysis to the challenging task of distinguishing between genuine works by an author, the preeminent American writer of mysteries, Raymond Chandler, and deliberate attempts by others to mimic the author's style. Rendering the task all the more challenging, the analysis focuses exclusively on the main elements of Chandler's style rather than on his...

Moving image art since the 1990s has often expressed a fascination with classical Hollywood cinema, employing strategies that range from allusion to direct quotation in its attempts to revise Hollywood imagery, forms and conventions, and the values that these enshrine. Such promiscuous practices of regurgitation are often characterized as parasitical and purely derivative, expressive of a late ...