{"product_id":"coinoperated-americans-9780816691838","title":"CoinOperated Americans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVideo gaming: it's a boy's world, right? That's what the industry wants us to think. Why and how we came to comply are what Carly A. Kocurek investigates in this provocative consideration of how an industry's craving for respectability hooked up with cultural narratives about technology, masculinity, and youth at the video arcade.From the dawn of t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carly A. Kocurek provides a fascinating cultural history of arcade gaming and, in doing so, offers keen insight into our ongoing conversations around gender and gaming. This is a must read for those interested not only in game studies but in the evolution of American boyhood.\"—T.L. Taylor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An excellent study of the early history of the video game industry and how it came to define the gamer as male.\"—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The great contribution of Kocurek’s Coin-Operated Americans is its attempt to historicize a relationship that often appears natural to cultural gatekeepers and other onlookers, not to mention reactionary “gamers” themselves.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublic Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This detailed study provides a lucid, compelling narrative that will interest a very diverse audience.\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Coin-Operated Americans is an invaluable contribution for those interested in the intersection among media, technology, and critical questions surrounding children and youth.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Childhood and Youth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kocurek invites readers to imagine the sensory environment of the early arcade, its sights and sounds, which serves as a vivid backdrop for the compelling cultural history the book chronicles.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Childhood and Youth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Productive contributions to studies of masculinity, and to studies of gender and digital play more broadly.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCoin-Operated Americans \u003c\/i\u003ewill make an excellent addition to undergraduate courses on gender studies, American culture, and the recent past.\"—\u003ci\u003eOral History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. The Microcosmic Arcade: Playing at the Cultural Vanguard \u003cbr\u003e2. Gaming’s Gold Medalists: Twin Galaxies and the Rush to Competitive Gaming\u003cbr\u003e3. Adapting Violence: \u003ci\u003eDeath Race\u003c\/i\u003e and the History of Gaming Moral Panic\u003cbr\u003e4. Anarchy in the Arcade: Regulating Coin-Op Video Games\u003cbr\u003e5. Play Saves the Day: \u003ci\u003eTRON, WarGames,\u003c\/i\u003e and the Gamer as Protagonist\u003cbr\u003e6. The Arcade Is Dead, Long Live the Arcade: Nostalgia in an Era of Ubiquitous Computing\u003cbr\u003e7. The Future Is Now: Changes in Gaming Culture\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038555832663,"sku":"9780816691838","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816691838.jpg?v=1750940660","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/coinoperated-americans-9780816691838","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}