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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay One of Amazon's "Best Books of 2017: Nonfiction" One of iBook's "Best Books of August" One of Publishers Weekly's "Books of the Week" "Carina Chocano's You Play the Girl reads like a war cry. With dazzling clarity, her commentary exposes the subliminal sexism on our pages and screens."—O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE "If Hollywood's treatment of women leaves you wanting, you'll find good, heady company in Carina Chocano's essay collection, You Play the Girl. Why, Chocano asks, does the ingenue have to choose between marriage and death?" —ELLE "In Carina Chocano’s whip-smart new book You Play The Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages, she analyzes the 'girls' of pop culture across the decades, from Bewitched to contestants on The Bachelor (and its fictional counterpart, UnREAL) to the princesses of Frozen. Through cultural commentary mixed with personal reflections, Chocano explores the ways on-screen women have influenced her life and the way she sees the world. A-."—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, "Best New Books" "Brilliant and insightful...You Play the Girl stands apart from others in the genre [...] by dissecting pop culture through the lens of a mother watching her young girl try to make sense of the world. The result is a heartfelt look at the complicated messages women receive, and argues that gut feelings about these messages should be carefully examined. Chocano persuades the reader that the media we absorb around us does matter, and shapes how we feel about ourselves. And she deftly shows how books, TV, and film that have been labeled “empowering” for women [...] often have hidden agendas."—PLAYBOY “The cultural formulas that Chocano identifies are frustrating, but her readings don’t deny them their fun…In the tradition of a long line of women writers, Chocano wants to make sense of this sort of enchantment and understand what kind of education it is offering up, and to whom.”—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Three sentences into You Play the Girl I already felt like cheering. Carina Chocano is a first-rate cultural critic whose specialty is constructing dead-on feminist analyses of such sinister artifacts as the relentless 'Frozen' and the various horrifying iterations of Barbie. Chocano is unusually skilled at dismantling the toxic underpinnings of such pop-culture mainstays, motivated in part by her desire to help her young daughter confront 'a world that literally never stops yelling at her that her primary value is sexual.' And Chocano demolishes the dismal shibboleth that feminists can’t be funny, wielding abundant wit with a devastating sardonic edge."—WASHINGTON POST "Reading Carina Chocano is like listening to a smart friend think out loud [...] [You Play the Girl is] a ruefully funny collection."—FILM QUARTERLY "Chocano's book is funny and exasperating and full of revelations and epiphanies...If being a woman means being obligated to play a game you can't win because the rules keep changing (and not arbitrarily), Chocano's book is something you'd be behooved to read while you catch your breath between rounds of disorienting blows to the head."—LA WEEKLY "Pop-culture critic Carina Chocano’s smart, colorful, and compelling collection of essays, You Play the Girl, unpacks the ways movies, TV, and advertising sculpt perceptions of who and what women can and cannot be. Chocano achieves the right mix between personal essay and clear-eyed criticism, between high culture and low (discussion of Virginia Woolf leads into the 'Ghostbusters' reboot and the attendant trolls). We get a sense of her formative pop-culture experiences ('The Philadelphia Story'; 'Bewitched'; 'Flashdance') as well as dips into feminist history and the tension between being yourself and being a person people are comfortable with. 'You could choose to be a person or you could choose to be loved,' Chocano writes. It is not a pessimistic collection, but it shows that the myths and narratives of female identity are still in place and largely shaped by men."—THE BOSTON GLOBE "[A] memoir/pop culture takedown of the way women are characterized by the media...The author is both a brilliant, funny analyst, and a terrific yarn-spinner...razor-sharp."—LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS "If you're ever at a party with author and former BUST columnist Carina Chocano, sit down next to her. In her first book of essays, the pop-culture critic tells her story of girlhood through the lens of the films and TV shows that made her realize she never actually wanted to play 'the girl'...Chocano's life advice doubles as a recommendations list....What makes Chocano so enjoyable to read is that, for better or worse, she revels in what she watched as a kid, and she'd like other women to do the same."—BUST "Pop culture critic Carina Chocano understands that how women are represented in movies, TV shows, books, memes, and music is reflective of how they’re treated in real life. That’s the driving force of her witty essay collection...In You Play the Girl, Chocano examines everything from Pretty Woman to Frozen to I Dream of Jeannie, and makes it clear that although women are bombarded with imagery that may be warped, we have the fortitude to dictate who we are outside of who we’re told to be."—BITCH MAGAZINE, "10 Books You Must Read in August" “A look at how popular culture depicts women through the eyes of a critic looking out for her daughter. You’ll never see Alice in Wonderland, My Best Friend’s Wedding or Frozen the same way.”—JAKE TAPPER, for PARADE, "JAKE TAPPER PICKS 3 BOOKS HE LOVES" "One of the smartest collections of essays in a year where smart essays were queen of writing, Chocano examines the mixed messages that are a part of every American woman’s upbringing. Whether analyzing the appellation 'train wreck' to a number of female celebrities who have been through public mental health issues, to the constant presence of the madonna/whore complex adapted for new times, Chocano provides much to chew on in this thoughtful series of essays on gender."—SIGNATURE READS, "24 Best Books to Gift to the Strong Feminist in Your Life" "Chocano brings to bear her experience as a widely published journalist and critic (of books and film) in this collection of essays examining what it has meant to be the 'girl' through decades of pop culture, from Playboy magazine to Thelma and Louise to Frozen. It's not exactly news that women are most often relegated to secondary character status - reactors rather than actors - but Chocano's mix of memoir, humor, and insight nevertheless strikes chords."—OMNIVORACIOUS (The Amazon Book Review), "The Best Nonfiction of August" "'The girl' is not something that Chocano will abide without a fight, which is exactly why she's written the book on why it's time for the trope to retire. You Play The Girl rattles the cage of how female characters have long been typecast within inherently sexist plot lines. Over the pages of Chocano's essay collection, she digs into the stories we’re used to seeing Hollywood produce, year after ear, and applies a critical lens to the subject matter that will make you, dear reader, see it in a way that you never have before."—REFINERY 29 "In You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages, Carina Chocano expertly dissects the identity of 'the girl.' Chocano shows us how from the second we’re born, we’re told what girls are and aren’t — and how those messages shape our identity whether we want them to or not. Come for the pop culture references, stay for the deep discussion about how complex women actually are IRL vs. on the screen."—HELLO GIGGLES, "8 new memoirs that you need on your nightstand" "Longtime arts critic Carina Chocano's incisive, hilarious, and timely take on the depiction of women and girls in pop culture manages to be both deeply personal and universally relevant. With keen insight and biting humor, Chocano assesses the relative impact of various female archetypes—and delivers an explosive critique of sexism and the power of mass media. You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks & Other Mixed Messages is like a long talk with your smartest, most impassioned friend."—iBOOKS, Best Books of August "Chocano draws out brilliant insights from across the decades...witty and sharp...[Chocano] weaves her observations into a fascinating history of women’s economic and social progress."—THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) "Whip-smart...Remarkably comprehensive and enjoyably associative, the essays move quickly from the haunting performances of French actress Isabelle Adjani to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Bewitched, and I Dream of Jeannie as allegories for the potential of powerful women to 'wreck civilization'...Incisive and witty...these essays will appeal to anyone interested in how women’s stories are told."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review "[Chocano] interweaves relevant personal stories from her childhood and adult experiences with and entertaining and insightful review of female characters from the last 50 years of pop culture, including television, film and literature. Chocano not only looks back at her own experiences, she also writes emotionally about the realities of the world that her young daughter faces today. Each piece combines numerous, well-connected examples from the author’s extensive knowledge of pop culture, with an analysis of a theme related to the various aspects of women’s lives: work, relationships, marriage, sexuality, motherhood, and even math. As a result, the essays have a sound research foundation and are well documented. VERDICT: This entertaining, engaging, enlightening tour of the portrayal of women in pop culture will appeal to general readers and researchers in a variety of cross-disciplinary fields." —LIBRARY JOURNAL, starred review "A sharply perceptive look at the myths that constrain women." —KIRKUS REVIEWS "You Play the Girl by Carina Chocano blew my mind. Like a goldfish realizing that water existed, I instantly came alive to the air and the atmosphere of how my Otherness informed my girlhood. Each and every message of being asked to stand still so that I could be seen by the cultural product of male-made entertainment made me scream with recognition. In particular, the Flashdance chapter time-travelled me back to my youth, but holding hands with a clear-eyed, brilliant, hilarious friend. Re-looking at Stepford Wives, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched and all of the other hypnotic suggestions about my supposed woman-hood made me feel alive and energized and ready to topple the patriarchy. The world is changing for women and girls and here is one of the first steps—going back to do archaeology about what the heck happened to us, how we got colonized. 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. Chocano is one of our sharpest, most original cultural observers, and You Play the Girl is as engrossing as it is unforgettable."—HEATHER HAVRILESKY, author of How to Be a Person in the World
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About the Author
CARINA CHOCANOÂ is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. Her writing has also appeared in Vogue, Elle, Rolling Stone, and many other publications. A former staff film and TV critic at the Los Angeles Times, she has been a TV and book critic at Entertainment Weekly and a staff writer at Salon. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Product details
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Mariner Books (August 8, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780544648944
ISBN-13: 978-0544648944
ASIN: 0544648943
Product Dimensions:
5.3 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
38 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#157,911 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This book helped me see the sexism and double-standards that women and men are shown throughout our culture. It helped me confront some of the realities that, as a man, I've often been allowed and encouraged to ignore. I now understand why "Knocked Up", a movie I liked, gave me a visceral feeling that something was "just wrong" with the portrayal of the female characters. It also explained why I sympathized with Katherine Heigl when she was attacked for speaking out about the sexism she felt when the movie was made. Chocano provides an encyclopedia of scenarios that make a guy say, "Oh yeah... That's kind of messed up, isn't it?"The book isn't the simplest of reads. At times, Chocano quotes or cites a passage as if all of her readers will know who or what she is talking about. But, I was not familiar with many of the references she was making. This may be exactly the point - that men do not see or read or notice these things - but it also makes it harder for me to follow along. Luckily, Chocano provides extensive references to source material, which may help me fill in the blanks. Chocano sometimes uses a vocabulary that is hard to follow unless you're getting your graduate degree in English, which I am not. Reading on a hard-copy, I didn't stop to look up every unknown word along the way. I think this will prevent the book from being as widely-read as the author and I would like it to be. Nonetheless, I suspect "You Play the Girl" will help me call B.S. on my buddies, my colleagues, and myself when we make flawed statements about the women in our lives and in the media. I suspect it will also help women call B.S. on a society that will otherwise continue to ask them to play the girl.
This is a fascinating critique of sexism in television and film--and why it matters in an America that is teeming with guns, gun movies, and shooting massacres; in a society that denies family benefits like affordable child care and health care. It is made all the more timely by the downfall of Harvey Weinstein and the festering mistreatment of women in Hollywood, on and off screen, just after the release of the book.
Few books have been as enlightening to me as this one. Carina Chocano carefully unpicks the ways in which women are portrayed in media and skillfully puts into words the feelings many of us have had about characters we thought were problematic, but couldn't articulate why we thought that way. I cannot recommend this book enough--it's changed my own writing as well as how I look at the world.
This is a wonderful book about the less than wonderful mixed messages that women get from pop culture. It's a story about a woman trying to raise a young daughter in a world of Playboy, The Bachelor and, of course, Frozen. It's funny, sad and always thought-provoking, especially for men who are practically taught from birth to objectify women.
If this gets lost in the back shelves of feminist anthropology, I will be angry. This is a must-read for all women, a mainstream book where a smart mom (does that make it sound more palatable? okay, good) connects the dots between everything she's seen in the movies and then highlights them in fear for her own little girl. It's smart, funny and dense with good information. Read a chapter a day, but remember your highlighter. You'll want to quote it.
157 highlights! That's how many I have. You know that point where it starts to feel ridiculous because you're highlighting EVERYTHING? I reached that point about halfway through the Kindle edition. I have also purchased hard copies to hand out to friends and a hard copy to have signed because.... full disclosure: I am a friend of the author. So you can take my recommendation with a grain of salt, but here is something only a friend of the author can tell you: reading this book IS just exactly like hanging out and talking pop culture with one of your coolest smartest friends.
I’ve never written an Amazon review before. I’m afraid to go down that rabbit hole. Still, I will risk it, because I think this is an exceptional book that needs to be read. I was never asked directly to write this. I don’t know the writer personally. But I was a huge fan of her work when she was a movie critic, no, film critic, at the Los Angeles Times. She was and is still my favorite film critic, and it made me sad when I stopped getting to read her reviews every week. No one else has filled, or perhaps can fill, the gaping hole in popular film criticism that currently exists with her departure.So, on a whim, a few months ago, I looked to see if maybe she had any books on Amazon. There was an opportunity to pre-order this book, and though it didn't seem like it would be pure film criticism, it seemed it would have some, so I took an inexpensive risk and pre-ordered. That said, I, like most men, normally would never have bought a book ostensibly on feminism.Don’t get me wrong, if someone was to ask me if I considered myself a feminist, I’d say yes. If someone was to tell me there was a feminist movie, would I want to see it, I’d say… Depends entirely if it is well written and executed. I don't care at all about a film’s subject matter or genre if it is well written. Now, something as potentially dry as a collection of essays largely around the idea of feminism… I guess again it would come down to whether I thought it would be well written. Luckily, I knew her work, so I bought it, and no surprise, I enjoyed it immensely.But, like any review by my favorite film critic, I cannot just give a glowing review that highlights only the good. So I will point out one “negative.†However, like a job applicant trying to be crafty, I will try to make this “greatest weakness†seem like an actual strength. But, unlike most job applicants, I actually believe it is. It will make you sad. At least, it sure made me sad.For me, reading Carina’s articles meant the joke was on Hollywood, and neither her nor I were complicit in creating the scenarioes nor recipients of their shame. But in this book you read how it affects her, how she is on the receiving end. Here you read how you, as part of society, intending or not, are complicit. You read how you are also receiving it to not just her, and so will the ones you love, and future loves ones (I couldn't help but worry while reading it about any future daughters I may have, especially as she speaks of her own daughter). Obviously, if you are man, then you don’t receive the “joke†of sexism as bad, but unless you lack empathy and enjoy margitalizing people directly or indirectly, it will make you sad. And, no, she doesn't give pat solutions.I think, and I doubt she’d disagree, we need more women representation. More women need to write, but also have the ability and power to distribute that vision unfettered. The aparatus, clearly, doesn't exist, certainly not on large scales. Chocano demonstrates that even the mainstream culture that is somewhat aligned to female expression or potentially feminist ideas are hampered and hobbled. I think that it really doesn’t matter what women write or express about, there just simply needs to be more, and with it more dimensionality will come.Chocano makes her point exceptionally well, there is less dimensionality in women characters, there are certain roles for women, certain character sets, that are the only ones available for female actresses to portray. Women come off as set pieces and bland one-note plot devices that way. She’s right, time and again, they don’t do anything in their depictions, things are done to them by male protagonists, who are the only fleshed out agents of change. I read this, and I realize as a writer of fiction myself, that I’ve done the same thing at times, and don’t even realize it because it seems “natural,†that's how everywhere it seems women are depicted. (Thus, writers, this book will help you be a better fiction writer.)I think, after reading this book, if all we experienced in popular culture were narratives controlled and proferred by women, men would have been the one dimensional characters. It seems the number of dimensions decrease with every degree from the depictor, if women were in more control in creating the narratives, more multi-dimensioned women would be depicted. The fact there are so few depictions than “the girl,†with her tightly contorted few options for realization, is a sad reflection on how much female control there is in cultural depiction. That seems to be Chocano’s main argument, and I can’t help but agree.There's far more to talk about with regards to this book. For example, if your gender’s depictions have been molded over time, and create your world, what are you after you try to cast them aside? Can it even be determined? It’s an obviously open-ended question.So, yes it made me sad, but I feel I have learned a lot, and I can try to apply it to my writing and interpersonal relations. Hopefully more people will read it too. Even if you have no desire in the subject, it doesn't matter, she is a writer of the highest degree, you’ll probably end up with more interest than you started. It will make you think, it will entertain you, it will make it worth it.
It grabbed me by the hand and forced me to look back into my life.... I loved it!
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