Coin-Operated Americans Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade |
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| Author:
| Kocurek, Carly A. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-9182-1 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $80.50 |
Book Description:
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Video 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
Video 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