{"product_id":"strip-cultures-9780822359487","title":"Strip Cultures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 America. Includes over 100 photographs by Karen Klugman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]he chapter on surveillance and 'security aesthetics' is downright chilling. This study may not expose all of Las Vegas’s secrets, but it still feels like someone pulling back the curtain for a peek at the Wizard.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eStrip Cultures \u003c\/i\u003eexplores all aspects of Vegas from the perspectives of art, photography and the visual, from the sensory experience to nature and technology, and brand and image. Every facet goes under the microscope, which makes for diverting reading in itself – viewing this city, its culture and its bizarre mix of inhabitants for the sheer theatre it is.\" -- Sam Marsden * Jackpot.co.uk *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] book of often startling richness and complexity, often very finely written. ...\u003ci\u003eStrip Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e is an admirably even-handed and non-judgemental account, for the most part, of a city whose openness allows its authors to experience it in some new ways. But as they make clear, it’s also a city whose pleasures come at a human cost. Without hectoring or harangue, but instead by steady accumulation of data and anecdote, that is the disturbing conclusion this book leaves.\" -- Richard J. Williams * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is an excellent travelogue with pictures and commentary of the experience that is Las Vegas and American culture.\" -- Brad Eden * Journal of American Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Riding the Deuce  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Framing Las Vegas \"Reality\"  23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Playing the Penny Slots  50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. S.I.N. City  70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. sH2Ow  110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Bread and Circuses  134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Whole World on a Plate  160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Gaming the Senses  184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Nature in Vegas: Cultivating the Brand  215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Shipping Container Capital of the World  243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Ghosts of Weddings Past, Present, and Yet to Come  290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. Memories: Made in China  322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Sucker Bet  338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  367","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406089625943,"sku":"9780822359487","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822359487.jpg?v=1730494488","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/strip-cultures-9780822359487","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}