| Strip Cultures: Finding America in Las Vegas Contributor(s): The Project on Vegas, The Project on Veg (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822359480 ISBN-13: 9780822359487 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $109.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Travel | United States - West - Mountain (az, Co, Id, Mt, Nm, Nv, Ut, Wy) |
| Dewey: 979.313 |
| LCCN: 2015004991 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.45 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Las Vegas, Nevada - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - Nevada |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |