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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: The Project on Vegas , The Project on VegasPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.658kg ISBN: 9780822359487ISBN 10: 0822359480 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 02 October 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"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"ReviewsRabelais does Las Vegas. --Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles ""[T]he chapter on surveillance and 'security aesthetics' is downright chilling. This study may not expose all of Las Vegas’s secrets, but it still feels like someone pulling back the curtain for a peek at the Wizard."" * Publishers Weekly * ""Strip Cultures explores all aspects of Vegas from the perspectives of art, photography and the visual, from the sensory experience to nature and technology, and brand and image. Every facet goes under the microscope, which makes for diverting reading in itself – viewing this city, its culture and its bizarre mix of inhabitants for the sheer theatre it is."" -- Sam Marsden * Jackpot.co.uk * ""[A] book of often startling richness and complexity, often very finely written. ...Strip Cultures is an admirably even-handed and non-judgemental account, for the most part, of a city whose openness allows its authors to experience it in some new ways. But as they make clear, it’s also a city whose pleasures come at a human cost. Without hectoring or harangue, but instead by steady accumulation of data and anecdote, that is the disturbing conclusion this book leaves."" -- Richard J. Williams * Times Higher Education * ""This book is an excellent travelogue with pictures and commentary of the experience that is Las Vegas and American culture."" -- Brad Eden * Journal of American Culture * Strip Cultures explores all aspects of Vegas from the perspectives of art, photography and the visual, from the sensory experience to nature and technology, and brand and image. Every facet goes under the microscope, which makes for diverting reading in itself viewing this city, its culture and its bizarre mix of inhabitants for the sheer theatre it is. --Sam Marsden Jackpot.co.uk Bringing fresh perspectives to our understanding of the Las Vegas Strip, the authors offer a compelling set of observations that speak not only to the over-the-top world of the Strip, but to larger trends in American culture. They allow readers to catch a brief glimpse of another Vegas, the one occupied by those who keep the city's economic wheels of gaming and tourism turning. -- Lynn Comella, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Rabelais does Las Vegas. -- Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles [T]he chapter on surveillance and 'security aesthetics' is downright chilling. This study may not expose all of Las Vegas's secrets, but it still feels like someone pulling back the curtain for a peek at the Wizard. Publishers Weekly Strip Cultures explores all aspects of Vegas from the perspectives of art, photography and the visual, from the sensory experience to nature and technology, and brand and image. Every facet goes under the microscope, which makes for diverting reading in itself - viewing this city, its culture and its bizarre mix of inhabitants for the sheer theatre it is. -- Sam Marsden Jackpot.co.uk [A] book of often startling richness and complexity, often very finely written. ...Strip Cultures is an admirably even-handed and non-judgemental account, for the most part, of a city whose openness allows its authors to experience it in some new ways. But as they make clear, it's also a city whose pleasures come at a human cost. Without hectoring or harangue, but instead by steady accumulation of data and anecdote, that is the disturbing conclusion this book leaves. -- Richard J. Williams Times Higher Education This book is an excellent travelogue with pictures and commentary of the experience that is Las Vegas and American culture. -- Brad Eden Journal of American Culture Author InformationThe members of the Project on Vegas are Stacy M. Jameson, Instructor of Film/Media at the University of Rhode Island; Karen Klugman, photographer and Chair of the Art Department at the Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut; Jane Kuenz, Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine; and Susan Willis, Associate Professor of Literature at Duke University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |