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Strip Cultures Finding America in Las Vegas /
<Div>The Project on Vegas shows how the Las Vegas Strip concentrates and magnifies American culture's core truths. Among others, the Strip's buffets, surveillance, large scale branding and consumption, and transformation of nature reflects larger trends and practices throughout Ameri...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.