The Resource You play the girl : on Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks, and other mixed messages, Carina Chocano
You play the girl : on Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks, and other mixed messages, Carina Chocano
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The item You play the girl : on Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks, and other mixed messages, Carina Chocano represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- "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 whatever the hero needs her to be in order to become himself. She's an abstraction, an ideal, a standard, a mercurial phantom. In You Play the Girl, Chocano blends formative personal stories with insightful and emotionally powerful analysis. Moving from Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, Flashdance to Frozen, the progressive '70s through the backlash '80s, the glib '90s, and the pornified aughts--and at stops in between--she explains how growing up in the shadow of "the girl" taught her to think about herself and the world and what it means to raise a daughter in the face of these contorted reflections. 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."--Page 4 of cover
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxvi, 275 pages
- Note
-
- Essays
- "A Mariner original"--Title page
- Contents
-
- part 1. Down the rabbit hole: Bunnies ; Can this marriage be saved? ; The bronze statue of the virgin slut ice queen bitch goddess ; What a feeling ; The eternal allure of the basket case
- part 2. The pool of tears: The ingenue chooses marriage or death ; Thoroughly modern Lily ; Bad girlfriend ; The kick-ass
- part 3. You wouldn't have come here: Surreal housewives ; Real girls ; Celebrity Gothic ; Big mouth strikes again ; The redemptive journey ; A modest proposal for more backstabbing in preschool
- part 4. A mad tea party: Let it go ; All the bad guys are girls ; Girls love math ; Train wreck ; Look at yourself ; Phantombusters, or, I want a feminist dance number
- Isbn
- 9780544648944
- Label
- You play the girl : on Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks, and other mixed messages
- Title
- You play the girl
- Title remainder
- on Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks, and other mixed messages
- Statement of responsibility
- Carina Chocano
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 whatever the hero needs her to be in order to become himself. She's an abstraction, an ideal, a standard, a mercurial phantom. In You Play the Girl, Chocano blends formative personal stories with insightful and emotionally powerful analysis. Moving from Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, Flashdance to Frozen, the progressive '70s through the backlash '80s, the glib '90s, and the pornified aughts--and at stops in between--she explains how growing up in the shadow of "the girl" taught her to think about herself and the world and what it means to raise a daughter in the face of these contorted reflections. 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."--Page 4 of cover
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chocano, Carina
- Dewey number
- 305.42
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HQ1206
- LC item number
- .C5185 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women
- Women
- Women in mass media
- Women in popular culture
- Sex role
- Sexism
- Label
- You play the girl : on Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks, and other mixed messages, Carina Chocano
- Note
-
- Essays
- "A Mariner original"--Title page
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-275)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- part 1. Down the rabbit hole: Bunnies ; Can this marriage be saved? ; The bronze statue of the virgin slut ice queen bitch goddess ; What a feeling ; The eternal allure of the basket case -- part 2. The pool of tears: The ingenue chooses marriage or death ; Thoroughly modern Lily ; Bad girlfriend ; The kick-ass -- part 3. You wouldn't have come here: Surreal housewives ; Real girls ; Celebrity Gothic ; Big mouth strikes again ; The redemptive journey ; A modest proposal for more backstabbing in preschool -- part 4. A mad tea party: Let it go ; All the bad guys are girls ; Girls love math ; Train wreck ; Look at yourself ; Phantombusters, or, I want a feminist dance number
- Control code
- ocn932050450
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xxvi, 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9780544648944
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustration
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780544648944
- (OCoLC)932050450
- Label
- You play the girl : on Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks, and other mixed messages, Carina Chocano
- Note
-
- Essays
- "A Mariner original"--Title page
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-275)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- part 1. Down the rabbit hole: Bunnies ; Can this marriage be saved? ; The bronze statue of the virgin slut ice queen bitch goddess ; What a feeling ; The eternal allure of the basket case -- part 2. The pool of tears: The ingenue chooses marriage or death ; Thoroughly modern Lily ; Bad girlfriend ; The kick-ass -- part 3. You wouldn't have come here: Surreal housewives ; Real girls ; Celebrity Gothic ; Big mouth strikes again ; The redemptive journey ; A modest proposal for more backstabbing in preschool -- part 4. A mad tea party: Let it go ; All the bad guys are girls ; Girls love math ; Train wreck ; Look at yourself ; Phantombusters, or, I want a feminist dance number
- Control code
- ocn932050450
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xxvi, 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9780544648944
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustration
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780544648944
- (OCoLC)932050450
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