{"product_id":"morta-las-vegas-nathaniel-lewis-9780803299931","title":"Morta Las Vegas: Csi and the Problem of the West","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMorta Las Vegas\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCSI: Crime Scene Investigation\u003c\/i\u003e. Delving deep into the interwoven events of the episode titled \"4 × 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. \u003ci\u003eMorta Las Vegas\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nathaniel Lewis,Stephen Tatum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803299931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803299931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Nathaniel Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47930684113151,"sku":"9780803299931","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f0d86fe4-33d9-4c1b-901c-eb1db9383536.jpg?v=1766343551","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/morta-las-vegas-nathaniel-lewis-9780803299931","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}