This essay was commissioned by Marceline Block for the book World Film Locations Las Vegas, part of a film series published by Intellect. It arose from my book The American Cinema of Excess: Extremes of the National Mind on Film, and was a great opportunity to think again about the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Terry Gilliam.

Published as 'Las Vegas and the Cinema of American Excess' in World Film Locations Las Vegas, Bristol: Intellect, 2011 (1,044 words).