Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher: Vintage

It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.

The Hippie Narrative

The Hippie Narrative Author: Scott MacFarlane
Publisher: McFarland

A Literary Perspective on the Counterculture Scott MacFarlane. in Fear and Loathing [in Las Vegas], a chronicle of addiction and dismemberment so vicious that it requires a lot of resilience to ... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (¡97¡) 191.

The Illuminati

The Illuminati Author: Mark Dice
Publisher: Mark Dice

... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas would later be made into a Hollywood movie in 1998 starring Johnny Depp. The book is about a journalist and his friend who go to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race for a writing assignment but instead go ...

Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The Untold Story

Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The Untold Story Author: Gene Gregorits
Publisher:

From Benicio Del Toro's self-inflicted cigarette burns and Alex Cox's anti-social incompetence to midget porn pranks and touching personal anecdotes about the legendary "king of fun" himself, "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas: The Untold ...

Encyclopedia of Beat Literature

Encyclopedia of Beat Literature Author: Kurt Hemmer
Publisher: Infobase Publishing

... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson (1971) A significant portion of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is set on the road, but the particular version of self-discovery that ...

Utopia Limited

Utopia Limited Author: Marianne DeKoven
Publisher: Duke University Press

... Las Vegas Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is , self - consciously , and by critical consensus , an epitaph for the sixties.1 It is intended to make us feel " the brutish realities of this foul year of Our Lord 1971 ...

Truman Capote

Truman Capote Author: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing

... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, published in 1971. From its famous opening riff—'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold'—to its Jack Kerouac-inspired tape transcript towards the end ...

The Death of A Dream - Hunter S. Thompson and the American Dream

The Death of A Dream - Hunter S. Thompson and the American Dream Author: Sonja Maier
Publisher: GRIN Verlag

... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is not about drugs”. Most of them did not understand that there was more to the story than just a journalist going crazy on drugs in Vegas. Hunter Thompson's style and the way he described the 60s seemed ...