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Strip Cultures : Finding America in Las Vegas /
"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 Stri...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: riding the deuce
- Framing Las Vegas "reality"
- Playing the penny slots
- S.I.N. city
- sH₂Ow
- Bread and circuses
- The whole world on a plate
- Gaming the senses
- Nature in Vegas: cultivating the brand
- The shipping container capital of the world
- Ghosts of weddings past, present, and yet to come
- Memories: made in China
- Epilogue: sucker bet.