Feeling Lucky

1. Introduction.- 2. Building Paradise – City Spaces and the production process of consumption experiences.- 3. Consumption Spaces – Building Casinos and producing Experiences in Monaco.- 4. The Las Vegas Strip: Creating and Selling the American Gambling Experience.- 5. The Right Crowd: Exclusion and the Moral Economy of Casino Gambling.- 6. Working in the Casinos, how Casinos work – Careers and Professional Biographies as the Basis of Producing the Consumption Experience.- 7. The Production of Consumption Experiences through Gambling Practices.- 8. Happy Losers, Happy Consumers – Gamblers as Consumers of Experiences.- 9. Conclusion: Casinos, Consumption and Capitalism.