A city that can be "all the things": competing/changing/conflicting images of Las Vegas in mainstream US filmsMain MenuIntroductionAbout the project dataDescription of the sources, processing and presentation of this project's datasetWhat elements occur most frequently in Las Vegas movies?What genre is the most prominent in the Las Vegas filmography?Visualizing the relationship between Las Vegas stories and timeWhere are Las Vegas movies set and filmed?Mapping film location in Las VegasBibliographyEmmelle Israel49259d27481e94aef653dc6db237f5f3f1c1b25a
The Grit beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas
12022-03-18T12:16:00-07:00Emmelle Israel49259d27481e94aef653dc6db237f5f3f1c1b25a399931plain2022-03-18T12:16:01-07:00Emmelle Israel49259d27481e94aef653dc6db237f5f3f1c1b25aHal Rothman and Mike Davis, eds., The Grit beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 12.
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12022-02-10T11:23:53-08:00Table of contents24plain11296312022-03-21T09:18:41-07:00A city that can be "all the things": competing/changing/conflicting images of Las Vegas in mainstream US films is an ongoing project to explore the many depictions of Las Vegas across decades of Hollywood and US independent films through digital humanities methods. The "all the things" quote from the project title refers to a quote from casino mogul Steve Wynn. Wynn, whose signature approach to casino resort design has been noted as "neo-Baroque," was one of the first casino owners to push the Strip in the direction of themed mega-resorts over glorious gambling halls. For Wynn, the appeal of Las Vegas was its ability to be "all the things people in every city in America like...in one gulp."
In terms of both resort design strategy and media representations, the image of Las Vegas has ranged from hedonistic excess to high roller glamour to family adventure destination and beyond. The current version of this project contains the following:
An Introduction that outlines the themes and arguments explored through that the data visualizations
Information on the creation and processing of the project's dataset
Various data visualizations and a map related to questions about film depictions of Las Vegas
Bibliography of sources
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