"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 * "[A] book of often startling richness and complexity, often very finely written. ...Strip Cultures 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 * "Strip Cultures explores 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 * "[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 *
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.
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Hardback. Condición: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. 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 America. Includes over 100 photographs by Karen Klugman. Nº de ref. del artículo: B9780822359487
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Condición: New. 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 America. Includes over 100 photographs by Karen Klugman. Num Pages: 384 pages, 101 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658. . 2015. Illustrated. Hardcover. . . . . Nº de ref. del artículo: V9780822359487
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