Strip Cultures
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5967-8 (ISBN)
On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise "hot babes," 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.
The 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.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.10.2015 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 101 photographs |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 544 g |
| Themenwelt | Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-5967-7 / 0822359677 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-5967-8 / 9780822359678 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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