Morta Las Vegas: CSI and the Problem of the West by Nathaniel Lewis and Stephen Tatum

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 504-506
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Chisum
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
The West

God’s Country, Las Vegas and the Gunfighter: Differing Visions of the West

1975 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-283
Author(s):  
John Cawelti
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
The West

scholarly journals Las Vegas Is a Faithful Mormon City: Phyllis Barber’s Search for Identity through Fiction and Place

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angel Chaparro
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
The West ◽  
Perfect Stage ◽  
Cultura Popular ◽  
Phyllis Barber ◽  
Good And Evil

Abstract: In Phyllis Barber’s memoir How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir, Las Vegas exercises a pivotal role. The Mormon ideals of purity, modesty and chastity do not come to mind when thinking of Las Vegas. Barber’s literature is a literary search for identity, and identity that allows good and evil in a wide array of possibilities. Las Vegas is in that sense the perfect stage to perform her search. Furthermore, Barber’s autobiography contributes with a new different approach to Las Vegas as an iconic city and to the West as a paradigm in which American identity was formed.Resumen: En How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir, Phyllis Barber utiliza Las Vegas como un complejo escenario donde los valores fomentados por la cultura Mormona chocan con aquellos de la cultura popular y secular. Barber, cuya literatura se caracteriza por ser un instrumento de confección de su identidad individual, abraza la paradoja como elemento enriquecedor de esa construcción. Al mismo tiempo, las conclusiones que se extraen del análisis de su obra son aplicables, en un enfoque más general, al papel de la cultura Mormona dentro del marco de la historia y la literatura del Oeste de los Estados Unidos.

scholarly journals PaleoTV, NeoTV and MetaTV in US Drama Series

Comunicar ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
pp. 175-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Tous-Rovirosa
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
Crime Scene ◽  
Short History ◽  
The West ◽  
Crime Scene Investigation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scene Investigation ◽  
Serial Fiction

This paper analyses the paleoTV, neoTV and metaTV features in three US drama series belonging to drama series genres and adventure subgenres: adventures («Lost»), crime («CSI: Crime Scene Investigation») and politics («The West Wing»). The aim of the research is to study these TV series in relation to the three eras which divide the short history of TV up to today, to determine the features that define this media in serial fiction and its relation to its own diachronic moment. The methodology of this work is based on the concepts of several scholars and makes references to other US fiction series. It emphasizes the autoreferenciality and intertextuality as some of metaTV’s most important features. Este artículo analiza las características paleotelevisivas, neotelevisivas y metatelevisivas de las series de ficción estadounidenses contemporáneas pertenecientes al género dramático y a los subgéneros de aventuras («Perdidos»), policíaco («CSI: Las Vegas») y político («El ala oeste de la Casa Blanca»). El objeto de la investigación consiste en estudiar dichas series televisivas estadounidenses dramáticas en relación a las tres eras que dividen la breve historia de la televisión hasta la actualidad, con la finalidad de detectar las características definitorias del medio en la serialidad de ficción y su relación con su propia diacronía. La metodología parte de los conceptos teóricos trabajados por varios estudiosos. Se destacan la autorreferencialidad y la intertextualidad como algunas de las características metatelevisivas predominantes, y se analiza la transmisión ideológica en dichas series.

Wolfcampian brachiopods from the Bird Spring Group, Wamp Spring area, Las Vegas Range, Clark County, Nevada

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick C. Mills ◽  
R. L. Langenheim
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Carbonate Rocks ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
The West ◽  
Clark County ◽  
West Texas ◽  
Rugose Corals ◽  
Spring Area ◽  
Platy Limestone ◽  
Hexactinellid Sponges

The Wamp Spring section of the Bird Spring Group consists of approximately 1,600 feet of carbonate rocks subdivided into a basal platy limestone member, lower cliff-forming member, and upper cliff-forming member.Triticites, Schwagerina, andSchubertella kingiin the platy limestone member indicate an early Wolfcampian age.Schwagerina, Schubertella kingi, and a distinctive assemblage of brachiopods, similar to the West Texas fauna, includingKozlowskia kingi, Elliottellaaff.E. multicostata, Leurosina sinesulca, Gypospirifercf.G. infraplicus, andCompositacf.C. apheles, indicate that the upper cliff-forming member is late Wolfcampian. The lower cliff-forming member is tentatively assigned to the middle Wolfcampian. The Wamp Spring sequence correlates temporally with the BSe “formation” of the Bird Spring Group.In addition to the previously mentioned taxa, the fossil-rich upper cliff-forming limestone member includes the new speciesPontisia boodi, Crurithyris wampensis, andCalliprotonia(?) n. sp. A, as well asHustedia culcitula, Crenispirifer(?) sp.,Cenorhynchia(?) sp.,Kutorginella(?) sp., marginiferids, lyssacine hexactinellid sponges, pleurotomarid and bellerophontid gastropods, cidaroid echinoids, rugose corals, cylindrical cryptostome bryozoans, and nuculids.

LOEX‐of‐the‐West 2008: hitting the jackpot in Las Vegas

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-346
Author(s):  
Priscilla Finley ◽  
Margy MacMillan ◽  
Susie Skarl
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
The West

Enumeration and Identification of Asbestos Fibres in Water

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 526-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Mudroch ◽  
J. R. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Samples ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Research Work ◽  
List Type ◽  
The West ◽  
Asbestos Fibre ◽  
Amphibole Asbestos

Approximately 60,000 tons per day of waste from taconite mining, tailing, are added to the west arm of Lake Superior at Silver Bay. Tailings contain nearly the same amount of quartz and amphibole asbestos, cummingtonite and actinolite in fibrous form. Cummingtonite fibres from 0.01μm in length have been found in the water supply for Minnesota municipalities.The purpose of the research work was to develop a method for asbestos fibre counts and identification in water and apply it for the enumeration of fibres in water samples collected(a) at various stations in Lake Superior at two depth: lm and at the bottom.(b) from various rivers in Lake Superior Drainage Basin.

The fight to save Uganda’s White Rhino

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
West Nile ◽  
White Rhino

In the West Nile District of Uganda lives a population of white rhino—those relies of a past age, cumbrous, gentle creatures despite their huge bulk—which estimates only 10 years ago, put at 500. But poachers live in the area, too, and official counts showed that white rhino were being reduced alarmingly. By 1959, they were believed to be diminished to 300.

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