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Strip Cultures (eBook, PDF)

Finding America in Las Vegas

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Produktbeschreibung

On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise "e;hot babes,"e; actual hot babes proffer complimentary drinks, and a million happy slot machines ring day and night. It's loud and excessive, but, as the Project on Vegas demonstrates, the Strip is not a world apart. Combining written critique with more than one hundred photographs by Karen Klugman, Strip Cultures examines the politics of food and water, art and spectacle, entertainment and branding, body and sensory experience. In confronting the ordinary on America's most famous four-mile stretch of pavement, the authors reveal how the Strip concentrates and magnifies the basic truths and practices of American culture where consumerism is the stuff of life, digital surveillance annuls the right to privacy, and nature-all but destroyed-is refashioned as an element of decor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375234
• Artikelnr.: 54787075

Autorenporträt

The Project on Vegas

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Riding the Deuce  1
1. Framing Las Vegas "Reality"  23
2. Playing the Penny Slots  50
3. S.I.N. City  70
4. sH2Ow  110
5. Bread and Circuses  134
6. The Whole World on a Plate  160
7. Gaming the Senses  184
8. Nature in Vegas: Cultivating the Brand  215
9. The Shipping Container Capital of the World  243
10. Ghosts of Weddings Past, Present, and Yet to Come  290
11. Memories: Made in China  322
Epilogue. Sucker Bet  338
Bibliography  359
Index  367