The Grit beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas

Table of contents

• The Grit Beneath the Glitter *
• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Introduction - The Many Faces of Las Vegas 1
• Part I - Image and Reality *
• Scripting Las Vegas - Noir Naïfs, Junking Up, and the New Strip 17
• Las Vegas of the Mind - Shooting Movies in and About Nevada 30
• Notes *
• Discordant Infrastructure 59
• Part II - Nuts and Bolts *
• Growth, Services, and the Political Economy of Gambling in Las Vegas, 1970–2000 73
• Notes *
• Lighting Las Vegas - Electricity and the City of Glitz 99
• Notes 112
• Build It and the Water Will Come 115
• Notes *
• The Social Costs of Rapid Urbanization in Southern Nevada 126
• Notes *
• Rise to Power - The Recent History of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas 145
• Notes *
• Class Struggle in Oz 176
• Part III - Voices *
• “squeezing the Juice Out of Las Vegas” - Reflections on Growing Up in Smalltown, Usa 187
• I Didn't Know Anybody Lived There 195
• How I Became a Native 208
• Inside the Glitter - Lives of Casino Workers 214
• Part IV - Shaping Life *
• “she Works Hard for Her Money” - A Reassessment of Las Vegas Women Workers, 1945–1985 243
• Notes *
• The Racial Cauldron 260
• Inside Jean 268
• Looking into a Dry Lake: Uncovering the Women's View of Las Vegas - A Film Journal 291
• Notes 303
• Part V - From Pariah to Paradigm *
• Colony, Capital, and Casino - Money in the Real Las Vegas 307
• Notes *
• Who Puts the “sin” in “sin City” Stories? - Girls of Grit and Glitter in the City of Women 335
• Nevada Goes Global - The Foreign Gaming Rule and the Spread of Casinos 347
• Canto: Las Vegas 363
• Contributors 377
• Index 379

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