Bright light city
Subtitle: Las Vegas in popular culture
By: Larry Gragg
Series: CultureAmerica; Culture America
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780700619030
Subjects: Social life and customs; History
Description: Gragg considers how popular culture has depicted the city of Las Vegas and its powerful allure over its first century. Drawing on hundreds of films, television programs, novels, and articles, he identifies changing trends in the city's portraits from a "frontier town" to a sophisticated resort city, to a city largely built by organized crime.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Bright Light City": The introduction to Las Vegas; title: Las Vegas: The last frontier town; title: Bugsy Siegel and the founding of Las Vegas; title: Organized crime in Las Vegas; title: Images of gambling in Las Vegas; title: The entertainment capital of the world; title: "Beautiful women were as commonplace in Las Vegas as poker chips": Images of Las Vegas women in popular culture; title: "So much luxury in the middle of the desert": Images of luxury and amenities in Las Vegas; title: "An awful place": The negative images of Las Vegas.