The Grit Beneath the Glitter

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ISBN: 9780520225381 | 0520225384
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Copyright: 3/1/2002

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This collection brings intellectual analysis, political and socioeconomic awareness, and top-quality photographs to bear on the ever-fascinating Las Vegas, one of the most talked about and visited cities in the United States.

Introduction: The Many Faces of Las Vegas

(16)

Hal Rothman

Mike Davis

PART I IMAGE AND REALITY

Scripting Las Vegas: Noir Naifs, Junking Up, and the New Strip

(13)

Norman M. Klein

Las Vegas of the Mind: Shooting Movies in and about Nevada

(29)

Francisco Menendez

Discordant Infrastructure

(14)

Peter Goin

PART II NUTS AND BOLTS

Growth, Services, and the Political Economy of Gambling in Las Vegas, 1970-2000

(26)

Eugene Moehring

Lighting Las Vegas: Electricity and the City of Glitz

(16)

Jay Brigham

Build It and the Water Will Come

115

(11)

Jon Christensen

The Social Costs of Rapid Urbanization in Southern Nevada

126

(19)

Robert E. Parker

Rise to Power: The Recent History of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas

145

(31)

Courtney Alexander

Class Struggle in Oz

176

(11)

Mike Davis

PART III VOICES

``Squeezing the Juice Out of Las Vegas'': Reflections On Growing Up in Smalltown, USA

187

(8)

Brian Frehner

I Didn't Know Anybody Lived There

195

(13)

Shannon McMackin

How I Became a Native

208

(6)

William N. Thompson

Inside the Glitter: Lives of Casino Workers

214

(29)

Kit Miller

PART IV SHAPING LIFE

``She Works Hard for Her Money'': A Reassessment of Las Vegas Women Workers, 1945-1985

243

(17)

Joanne L. Goodwin

The Racial Cauldron

260

(8)

Mike Davis

Inside Jean

268

(23)

Constance Devereaux

Looking into a Dry Lake: Uncovering the Women's View of Las Vegas

291

(16)

Amie Williams

PART V FROM PARIAH TO PARADIGM

Colony, Capital, and Casino: Money in the Real Las Vegas

307

(28)

Hal Rothman

Who Puts the ``Sin'' in ``Sin City'' Stories? Girls of Grit and Glitter in the City of Women

335

(12)

Kathryn Hausbeck

Nevada Goes Global: The Foreign Gaming Rule and the Spread of Casinos

347

(16)

William N. Thompson

Canto: Las Vegas

363

(14)

Richard Misrach

Contributors

377

(2)

Index

379

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