Morta Las Vegas : CSI and the problem of the West / Nathaniel Lewis, Stephen Tatum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Nathaniel, author.

Tatum, Stephen, author.

Series:

Postwestern horizons.

Postwestern Horizons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

CSI, crime scene investigation (Television program).

Las Vegas (Nev.)--On television.

Las Vegas (Nev.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Summary:

Through all its transformations and reinventions over the past century, "Sin City" has consistently been regarded by artists and cultural critics as expressing in purest form, for better or worse, an aesthetic and social order spawned by neon signs and institutionalized indulgence. In other words, Las Vegas provides a codex with which to confront the problems of the West and to track the people, materials, ideas, and virtual images that constitute postregional space.Morta Las Vegas considers Las Vegas and the problem of regional identity in the American West through a case study of a single episode of the television crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Delving deep into the interwoven events of the episode titled "4 x 4," but resisting a linear, logical case-study approach, the authors draw connections between the city--a layered and complex world--and the violent, uncanny mysteries of a crime scene. Morta Las Vegas reveals nuanced issues characterizing the emergence of a postregional West, moving back and forth between a geographical and a procedural site and into a place both in between and beyond Western identity.

Contents:

The problem of the past : the case of the stolen Hummer

The problem of space and place : the case of the dead convention model

The problem of aesthetics : the case of the dead bodybuilder

The problem of the [uncanny] West : the case of the abandoned dead boy

Conclusion : nighthawks in Las Vegas

"Just another day in paradise" : an envoi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496204257

1496204255

9781496204271

1496204271

OCLC:

1014380807