Carly A Kocurek

Coin-Operated Americans

Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade

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Produktbeschreibung

Carly A. Kocurek is assistant professor of digital humanities and media studies and director of digital humanities at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Her work has appeared in journals including Game Studies, Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, and Visual Studies and in the anthologies Before the Crash¿and Gaming Globally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 139mm x 214mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780816691838
• ISBN-10: 0816691835
• Artikelnr.: 42652173

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Microcosmic Arcade: Playing at the Cultural Vanguard
2. Gaming’s Gold Medalists: Twin Galaxies and the Rush to Competitive
Gaming
3. Adapting Violence: Death Race and the History of Gaming Moral Panic
4. Anarchy in the Arcade: Regulating Coin-Op Video Games
5. Play Saves the Day: TRON, WarGames, and the Gamer as Protagonist
6. The Arcade Is Dead, Long Live the Arcade: Nostalgia in an Era of
Ubiquitous Computing
7. The Future Is Now: Changes in Gaming Culture
Notes
Bibliography
Index