Carina Chocano
Författare till You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages
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- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bostadsorter
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Yrken
- film critic
- Organisationer
- Los Angeles Times
- Agent
- Sarah Burns
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Statistik
- Verk
- 2
- Även av
- 3
- Medlemmar
- 199
- Popularitet
- #110,457
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 4
- ISBN
- 5
1) slightly out of touch with the millennial generation and beyond, in terms of what pop references are most relevant and how people feel about them now. I didn't recognize every single film or tv show she talks about which felt telling.
2) Like others have mentioned in their reviews, there was not a lot of analysis from the perspective of race. Most (all?) the characters and personalities she discusses are white and that doesn't feel like it should be left alone. An essay on how women of color are presented or excluded from media would have been the bare minimum.
2) I am tired of hearing about how Disney princesses are bullshit. We already know that but we also know that shaming girls for liking princesses is the opposite of feminism and like, just enjoy or hate princesses on your own at this point.
3) the author frames this all through a reading of Alice In Wonderland that somehow ignores that the real-life Alice was a child being groomed and preyed upon by a pedophile and that just doesn't feel like it is doing the female empowering move that it should be doing...
I think ultimately I was not the audience for this (despite being interested in all the topics it covers) and through no fault of its own, it misses the tone because it was published a mere two months before the #metoo movement reached its height and gave us a whole new perspective on all these topics. (It was bothering me why Harvey Weinstein came up without any commentary on him and publication dates don't tell lies)
I didn't actually finish but the tone was bumming me out so I am going to save this to finish later. The essays are interesting (some more than others, but that's always the case) and worth reading just not...during a government coup/pandemic combo… (mer)