You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (608 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01912P4NA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 390 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Repetition, spoilersand a bit of brilliance. Julee Rudolf The blurb about this book promised that this collection was "In the tradition of Roxane Gay" I read and loved Bad Feminist. Save the genre, Chocano's essays bear little resemblance to Gay's.I wanted to love this collection. Chocano was born in the late 60s, I in the mid. She uses a number of TV series, movies and books with which I'. "Thoughtful and well-done reflections on pop culture and other topics" according to Nathan Webster. This was a thought-provoking collection of essays, especially on the subject of women in moviesin my lifetime, I've seen the quality/quantity of female representation in movies go from semi-okay (in my mind) to woeful and pandering and condescendingand it's no wonder so many good actresses have gone to television. Carina Chocano's t. Unique, insightful, relevant, look at how media has portrayed females and how that has affected us Just Me This is a true 5 star book. I expected more “same old same” criticism of how the media portrays women. I was delighted to find a well written book that is a combination of Chocano’s personal insight and her research. For those of us who grew up in the 1970s and 80s, as Chocano did, the references will really strike
In the tradition of Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, and Susan Sontag, Chocano brilliantly shows that our identities are more fluid than we think, and certainly more complex than anything we see on any kind of screen.. In this smart, funny, impassioned call to arms, a pop culture critic merges memoir and commentary to explore how our culture shapes ideas about who women are, what they are meant to be, and where they belong.Who is "the girl"? Look to movies, TV shows, magazines, and ads and the message is both clear and not: she is a sexed up sidekick, a princess waiting to be saved, a morally infallible angel with no opinions of her own. She's an abstraction, an ideal, a standard, a mercurial phantom. From the moment we’re born, we're told stories about what girls are and they aren’t, what girls want and what they don’t, what girls can be and what they can’t. She's whatever the hero needs her to be in order to become himself. From Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, from Flashdance to Frozen, from the progressive ’70s through the backlash ’80s, the glib ’90s, and the pornified aughts—and at stops in between—Chocano blends
If information is power, You Play the Girl is a superpower."—JILL SOLOWAY, writer, director, and creator of "Transparent" "Carina Chocano is a brilliant thinker, a dazzling stylist and an intellectual in the truest sense of the word. An important critical work as well as an entertaining personal story, You Play the Girl looks at old archetypes in new and often astonishingly insightful ways and establishes Chocano as a unique talent and crucial voice in the cultural conversation."—MEGHAN DAUM, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion "Carina Chocano unearths the little horrors of our culture's pervasive, insidious sexism in essays so brilliant and witty you'll wish her book would never end. Come for the pop culture references, stay for the deep discussion about how complex women actually are IRL vs. Like a goldfish realizing that water existed, I instantly came alive to