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Bright Light City: Las Vegas in Popular Culture (Culture America (Hardcover))
Larry Gragg
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Description for Bright Light City: Las Vegas in Popular Culture (Culture America (Hardcover))
Hardcover. A lively cultural history of Las Vegas, boasting color photos and bursting with insider details. Celebrating the eclectic blend of stories, people, sights, and sounds that together make up Las Vegas's extraordinary appeal, this book considers how popular culture has depicted the city and its powerful allure over its first century. Series: CultureAmerica. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white halftones, colour illust. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 667.
When Elvis crooned “Bright light city . . . gonna set my soul on fire,” he voiced and embraced the siren call of a glittering urban utopia that continues to mesmerise millions. Call it Sin City or Lost Wages, Las Vegas definitely deserves its rapturous “Viva!”
Larry Gragg, however, invites readers to view Las Vegas in an entirely new way. While countless other authors have focused on its history or gaming industry or entertainment ties, Gragg considers how popular culture has depicted the city and its powerful allure over its first century.
Drawing on hundreds of ... Read more
When Elvis crooned “Bright light city . . . gonna set my soul on fire,” he voiced and embraced the siren call of a glittering urban utopia that continues to mesmerise millions. Call it Sin City or Lost Wages, Las Vegas definitely deserves its rapturous “Viva!”
Larry Gragg, however, invites readers to view Las Vegas in an entirely new way. While countless other authors have focused on its history or gaming industry or entertainment ties, Gragg considers how popular culture has depicted the city and its powerful allure over its first century.
Drawing on hundreds of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
CultureAmerica
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619030
SKU
V9780700619030
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About Larry Gragg
Larry Gragg is Curators’ Teaching Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, USA. For the past two decades he has made an annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas and wistfully echoes a familiar sentiment: “The reason I like Las Vegas is because it’s almost all the ... Read more
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