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World film locations : Las Vegas / edited by Marcelline Block.
- Title
- World film locations : Las Vegas / edited by Marcelline Block.
- Publication
- Bristol : Intellect, 2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1995.67.N3 W67 2011 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Block, Marcelline
- Description
- 128 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- An analyses of scenes from a broad selection of 46 films filmed in Las Vegas. Essays examine a range of topics, such as the Rat Pack's Las Vegas, art and culture on and off the Strip, Las Vegas as a backdrop for science fiction, and portrayals of iconic pop-culture figures.
- Series Statement
- World film locations series
- Uniform Title
- World film locations series.
- Alternative Title
- Las Vegas
- Subject
- Note
- Includes filmography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographic references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Essays: Las Vegas: city of imagination / David Sterritt -- Pack mentality: the Vegas of the original Ocean's Eleven / Walter Raubicheck -- Electric dreams: lighting up The Strip, Sydney Pollack style / Carol Cling -- Fear and loathing: Las Vegas and the cinema of American excess / Mike King -- Strings attached: Las Vegas in science fiction 'B' movies / Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang -- Dream machine: Las Vegas as mythical destination / Oana Chivoiu -- Beyond The Strip: life and culture on the outer limits of 'Sin City' / David Dickens.
- ISBN
- 9781841505886 (pbk.)
- 1841505889 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 779582686
- SCSB-11973441
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library