Morta Las Vegas

CSI and the Problem of the West

Nathaniel Lewis, Stephen Tatum (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2017
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-9993-1 (ISBN)

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Through all its transformations and reinventions over the past century, “Sin City” has consistently been regarded by artists and cultural critics as expressing in purest form, for better or worse, an aesthetic and social order spawned by neon signs and institutionalized indulgence. In other words, Las Vegas provides a codex with which to confront the problems of the West and to track the people, materials, ideas, and virtual images that constitute postregional space.

Morta Las Vegas considers Las Vegas and the problem of regional identity in the American West through a case study of a single episode of the television crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Delving deep into the interwoven events of the episode titled “4 × 4,” but resisting a linear, logical case-study approach, the authors draw connections between the city—a layered and complex world—and the violent, uncanny mysteries of a crime scene. Morta Las Vegas reveals nuanced issues characterizing the emergence of a postregional West, moving back and forth between a geographical and a procedural site and into a place both in between and beyond Western identity.

Nathaniel Lewis is a professor of English at Saint Michael’s College. He is the coeditor of True West: Authenticity and the American West (Nebraska, 2004) and the author of Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship(Nebraska, 2003). Stephen Tatum is a professor of English at the University of Utah. He is the author of In the Remington Moment (Nebraska, 2010) and the coeditor of Reading “The Virginian” in the New West (Nebraska, 2003).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Morning in Las Vegas
1. The Problem of the Past: The Case of the Stolen Hummer
2. The Problem of Space and Place: The Case of the Dead Convention Model
3. The Problem of Aesthetics: The Case of the Dead Bodybuilder
4. The Problem of the [Uncanny] West: The Case of the Abandoned Dead Boy
Conclusion: Nighthawks in Las Vegas
“Just Another Day in Paradise”: An Envoi
Source Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.10.2017
Reihe/Serie	Postwestern Horizons
Zusatzinfo	7 photographs, 21 illustrations, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-8032-9993-1 / 0803299931
ISBN-13	978-0-8032-9993-1 / 9780803299931
Zustand	Neuware