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... Documentary photographs in Las Vegas reveal the many visual tricks used to purposely reveal everything, even the copies of foreign architecture, to be fake. With multiple versions of costumed characters parading the streets, wax figures posing with tourists, advertisements juxtaposed with iconic...

... Nature on the Las Vegas Strip is constructed and themed to match the socioeconomics of the clientele of the various hotel-casinos. Design decisions such as whether to use artificial plants or real plants and whether to display nature as imperfect or flawless are taken to the extreme in Las Vegas...

... 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...

... A survey of slot machines on the Las Vegas Strip offers descriptions of the play and the players in the context of a larger discussion about the function of loyalty rewards in a consumer-driven economy. slot machines consumer rewards ...

... Las Vegas epitomizes the normalization of surveillance and the privatization of public space. The same data mining and biometric technologies used to monitor gamblers, maximize consumption, and control labor in casinos are integrated into other aspects of daily life, such as online shopping...

... on hotel overpasses, the luxurious Bellagio fountain serenades, the Cirque du Soleil show O, and the visual cues of sinking water levels in Lake Mead—function as lenses into hierarchies of Vegas privilege and power. Water in Sin City is understood through a series of tensions, first between water...

...; the closed Liberace Museum and the revived Composers’ Showcase; Cirque du Soleil, which now has numerous shows in multiple venues along the Strip as well as commodity tie-ins with artists and designers; and the Cosmopolitan Hotel, whose brand explicitly offers a Vegas experience as an engagement with high...

... An exploration of buffet-style dining on the Las Vegas Strip opens into a history of the cafeteria and a discussion of culinary tourism that broaches questions pertaining to globalized food production and the issue of food waste. Las Vegas buffets culinary tourism food waste ...

... Vegas suggests the identity and community envisioned by the rise of social media and the networked and augmented spaces necessary for it. The constant self-exposure and liking of our own and each other’s content mirrors the self-branding and flexibility required of workers in a global economy...

... A compilation of Las Vegas weddings and vow renewal ceremonies highlights the role of weddings and marriage in the construction of historically defined social norms, with a special focus on consumer-driven expectations. Las Vegas weddings vow renewals ...

... An overview of Las Vegas curios and souvenirs opens the discussion of the globalized production of mementos and their relationship to memory and remembrance. souvenir consumerism memories ...