Feeling lucky : the production of gambling experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas / Paul Franke.
Franke, Paul.
2023
HV6721.N3
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Title Feeling lucky : the production of gambling experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas / Paul Franke.
Author Franke, Paul.
ISBN 9783031330957 (electronic bk.)
3031330951 (electronic bk.)
3031330943
9783031330940
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33095-7
Publication Details Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-33095-7 doi
Call Number HV6721.N3
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.482
Summary 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. Paul Franke is an Assistant Professor at the Philipps University Marburg and Associated Researcher at Centre Marc Bloch, Germany. He specializes in the cultural history of markets and economies, urban history, and the history of gambling.
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Series Worlds of consumption.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783031330940
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1. Introduction
2. Building Paradise City Spaces and the production process of consumption experiences
3. Consumption Spaces Building Casinos and producing Experiences in Monaco
4. The Las Vegas Strip: Creating and Selling the American Gambling Experience
5. The Right Crowd: Exclusion and the Moral Economy of Casino Gambling
6. Working in the Casinos, how Casinos work Careers and Professional Biographies as the Basis of Producing the Consumption Experience
7. The Production of Consumption Experiences through Gambling Practices
8. Happy Losers, Happy Consumers Gamblers as Consumers of Experiences
9. Conclusion: Casinos, Consumption and Capitalism.

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