TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alan Shapiro
PY  - 2025
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1058-1634
SN  - 9783034358552
TI  - Venice in Las Vegas
T2  - An American and European Auto-Socio-Biography, 1960s to 1980s
DO  - 10.3726/b22883
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1560177
N2  - As Donald Trump seeks to transform America, many people talk about wanting to leave the country. I left the USA several decades ago, yet I still love my homeland. I searched for dialog between Europe and America through the link between Venice and Las Vegas."  Through the mode of the auto-socio-biography, Shapiro's "Venice in Las Vegas" examines the cultural, political, technological events, and reaction of the media, that shaped the period of the 1960s through the 1980s across the United states and Europe. Shapiro weaves through this examination his personal experiences, engaging with writers such as Baudrillard, Camus, Auster, and others, whose work is so intricately tied to his own memories of that time.
KW  - memoir, auto-socio-biography, Venice, Las Vegas, Bologna, gambling, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Auster, Albert Camus, simulation, hyperreality, media culture, student movements, France, Italy, Long Island, gifted children, 1960s, 1970s, blackjack, roulette, MIT, Cornell, NYU, Judaism, anarchism, Marxism, programming
LA  - English
ER  -