Monte Carlo and Las Vegas have become synonymous with casino
gambling. Both destinations featured it as part of a broad variety
of leisure and consumption opportunities that normalized games of
chance and created emotional atmospheres that supported the
hedonistic aspects of gambling. Urban spaces and architecture were
carefully designed to enable a rapid growth of the casino industry
and produce experiences on previous unimaginable scale. Feeling
Lucky, is a “making of story,” about cities which acquired a
strange and captivating allure of mystery around them. It is more
than a mere descriptive account, however. Combining urban history,
the history of consumption, and sociological approaches it presents
a compelling comparative history of Monte Carlo and the Las Vegas
Strip between the 1860s and 1970s. Paul Franke takes the reader on
a journey from arriving at the cities, through the carefully
planned urban environments and into the famous casinos. The
analysis follows the paths contemporary gamblers would have taken,
right to the gambling tables and to the shifting gambling practices
across a century. Franke shows that casino entrepreneurs succeeded
in producing and selling gambling experiences by controlling
spaces, adapt leisure practices and appeal to specific markets.
Gamblers on the other hand regarded Monte Carlo and Las
Vegas as places to engage in games of chance that would allow them
to preserve their political, cultural, and moral identities.
General
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
|
| Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
| Series: |
Worlds of Consumption |
| Release date: |
July 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Paul Franke
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
253 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2023 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-133094-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
3-03-133094-3 |
| Barcode: |
9783031330940 |
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