Las Vegas: Desert of the Real This is a close reading of the motifs used in Las Vegas casinos such as Caesar's Palace and Treasure Island, using a framework of Alexander Wilson's critique of Disneyland and EPCOT center. Wilson criticized those places as condemnation to an "eternal and recurrent present", and the historical motifs used in Las Vegas are found to suffer from the same shallowness. Pages: 5 Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed Filename: 19967 Las Vegas Alexader Wilson Casino.doc Price: 44.75