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A bus ride on the Las Vegas Strip charts the geographic and cultural topography of the Strip. A series of vignettes gleaned from passengers on board the bus highlight the daily life ephemera at the heart of a cultural studies approach whose theoretical underpinnings and methodologies are outlined.

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