Format:
Online-Ressource (388 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520225384
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0520205294
Content:
The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside. In it, long-time residents as well as professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on earth, yet one about which relatively little is known. They offer a lively and compelling portrait of the other side of Las Vegas: the people and institutions that support the glitter of the gaming and entertainment industry. Examining a range of topics--from the city's commercial history, labor conditions, and environmental problems to an analysis of the famous lights
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; Introduction: The Many Faces of Las Vegas; PART I: IMAGE AND REALITY; Scripting Las Vegas: Noir Naïfs, Junking Up, and the New Strip; Las Vegas of the Mind: Shooting Movies in and about Nevada; Discordant Infrastructure; PART II: NUTS AND BOLTS; Growth, Services, and the Political Economy of Gambling in Las Vegas, 1970-2000; Lighting Las Vegas: Electricity and the City of Glitz; Build It and the Water Will Come; The Social Costs of Rapid Urbanization in Southern Nevada; Rise to Power: The Recent History of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas; Class Struggle in Oz
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PART III: VOICES"Squeezing the Juice Out of Las Vegas": Reflections On Growing Up in Smalltown, USA; I Didn't Know Anybody Lived There; How I Became a Native; Inside the Glitter: Lives of Casino Workers; PART IV: SHAPING LIFE; "She Works Hard for Her Money": A Reassessment of Las Vegas Women Workers, 1945-1985; The Racial Cauldron; Inside Jean; Looking into a Dry Lake: Uncovering the Women's View of Las Vegas; PART 5 FROM PARIAH TO PARADIGM; Colony, Capital, and Casino: Money in the Real Las Vegas; Who Puts the "Sin" in "Sin City" Stories? Girls of Grit and Glitter in the City of Women
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Nevada Goes Global: The Foreign Gaming Rule and the Spread of CasinosCanto: Las Vegas; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520225381
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Grit Beneath the Glitter : Tales from the Real Las Vegas
Language:
English
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