Podcast appearances and mentions of carina chocano

Following the request from many listeners we felt a discussion on The Bear was worth a slight detour from our regular format. That's why we asked Jenny to come back and discuss The Bear, Season One with Martha.  Starting off with a quote from the article by Carina Chocano from NY Times, called How ‘The Bear' Captures the Panic of Modern Work. Jenny and Martha discuss various elements Chocano reveals, and other elements worth further exploration. Please see Season 1 before listening, so any spoilers do not disappoint you, our listener. As service people, we debate "how accurate is The Bear?", how accurate is the toxic atmostphere? how realistic is the brigade and the vibe of the kitchen? and how likely or unlikely are the characters?  There will be another Jenny and Martha hour for Season Two.     

Recorremos un día más la Feria del Libro de Madrid donde participan en esta edición la librería Lata Peinada, dedicada exclusivamente a la literatura latinoamericana; la editorial Libros de seda, que publica autores como la peruana Carina Chocano, ganadora del Premio Nacional de la Crítica 2017 en Estados Unidos, o la editorial Nowevolution, con la autora argentina Karina Costa Ferreyra, conocida por el seudónimo Brianna Callum. (08/06/22) Escuchar audio

Carina Chocano, author of You Play the Girl, joined Susan on June 11, 2018. 

YOU PLAY THE GIRL: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks & Other Mixed Messages Show Guest: Carina Chocano As a kid, Carina Chocano was confused by the mixed messages all around her about how to be a woman; messages that told her who she could be – and who she couldn’t. Dutifully absorbing all the conflicting information the culture had to offer, Chocano grappled with sexed up sidekicks, princesses waiting to be saved, and morally infallible angels who seemed to have no opinions of their own. It wasn’t until she spent five years as a movie critic, and was laid off just after her daughter was born, however, that she really came to understand how the stories the culture tells us about what it means to be a girl limit our lives and shape our destinies. She resolved to rewrite her own story. In YOU PLAY THE GIRL: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks & Other Mixed Messages, Chocano blends personal stories and powerful analysis. From Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, from Flashdance to Frozen, from the ’70s to today, 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 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 whatever the hero needs her to be in order to become himself. 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. “The girl” looms over us like a toxic cloud, permeating everything and confusing our sense of reality. In You Play the Girl, Carina Chocano shows how we metabolize the subtle, fragmented messages embedded in our everyday experience and how our identity is shaped by them.   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 formative personal stories with insightful and emotionally powerful analysis. 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. Praise for You Play the Girl  “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 amsuperpower.”—Jill Soloway, writer, director, 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 Carina Chocano is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine and Elle, and her writing has appeared in Vulture, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. A former staff film and TV critic at the Los Angeles Times, she has also worked as a TV and book critic at Entertainment Weekly and a staff writer at Salon. She lives in Los Angeles. Kristina Wong is solo performer, writer, actor, educator, “culture jammer”, and filmmaker. Kristina’s background in education, art for social change, and community work informs the content of her performances and writing which are both entertaining and thought provoking. She was awarded the Creative Capital Award in Theater and a Creation Fund from the National Performance Network to create her third full-length solo show Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest exploring the remarkably high incidence of suicide among Asian American women in a world that’s more nuts than we are. She is completing a novel started with the PEN USA Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship. Event date:  Thursday, August 31, 2017 - 7:30pm

Today on The Neil Haley Show, The Total Tutor Neil Haley and Sara Bella will interview  Carina Chocano, Author of YOU PLAY THE GIRL. Carina Chocano is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. Her work has appeared in New York magazine, Elle, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and many others. She has been a film and TV critic at The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Salon.com. Her book You Play the Girl is the winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and was a finalist for the PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for Criticism. She lives in Los Angeles. 

Carina Chocano is a journalist who has written for the New York Times magazine, Elle, Vogue and numerous others. Carina is also a woman who, beginning in her youth, was questioning the way things were for women, the attitudes, the roles...seen in the media, found in books. And now she is the author of: You Play the Girl. On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Meassages. Carina presents thought provoking, important essays that might feel uncomfortable, but more likely will have us nodding our heads and feeling we have found a kindred spirit. www.carinachocano.com

As a child, our guest, Carina Chocano, was confused by the mixed messages all around her about how to be a woman.  The messages told her who she could be and who she couldn't.  After spending five years as a movie critic, Carina came to understand how the stories our culture tells us about what it means to be a girl limit our lives and shape our destinies.  She's written about that in her new book, titled 'You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages'. You can learn more about Carina by going to her website at https://www.carinachocano.com/about And you can buy the book at https://www.amazon.com/You-Play-Girl-Stepford-Messages-ebook/dp/B01912P4NA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The program all about TV. Our guest: TV critic Carina Chocano, author of the new book You Play The Girl.

In this week’s podcast we read You Play the Girl, Carina Chocano’s critical analysis of femininity in pop culture. Then we enter The House of Dior, the NGV’s sumptuous survey of the French fashion label’s 70 years. And finally we revisit the retro-futurist film noir of Ridley Scott’s replicants with Denis Villeneuve’s sequel, Blade Runner 2049.

Author Carina Chocano discusses her new book, "You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, and Other Mixed Messages."