Demonstrating the timely relevance of Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jack London and Henry Adams, this book shows how debates about evolution, identity, and a shifting world picture have uncanny parallels with the emerging global systems that shape our own lives. Tracing these systems' take-off point in the early twentieth century through the lens of popular science journalism, John Bruni makes a valuable contribution to the study of how biopolitical control over life created boundaries ...

Focusing on twenty-first century Western films, including all major releases since the turn of the century, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of aesthetic and thematic aspects explored in these films, including gender and race. As diverse contributors focus on the individual subgenres of the traditional Western (the gunfighter, the Cavalry vs. Native American conflict, the role of women in Westerns, etc.), they share an understanding of the twenty-first century Western may be u...

Confessions from the Think Tank, curated by Rob Tannahill, was a challenge to give authors an opportunity to delve deep into the dystopian world of aliens, dark science (think MK Ultra), evil politicians, and dark dimensions that exist on the flip side of the coin we call reality. Many of us wonder...just exactly what are these brilliant and often corrupt minds doing to manipulate us? These and other themes are explored here. We're not Alex Jones--these are works of fiction--but we might'v...