A Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) is a stock character type in fiction, usually depicted as a young woman with eccentric personality quirks who serves as...
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Doll Skin (redirect from Manic Pixie Dream Girl (album))
June 16, 2017, Doll Skin released their full-length debut album Manic Pixie Dream Girl. It debuted on the Billboard Heat-seeker chart at No. 6 and moved...
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Garden State (film) (section Manic Pixie Dream Girl)
Natalie Portman's character Sam has been used as an example of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope, a term that was coined soon after Garden State was released...
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In his review, Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club created the term "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" to describe the "bubbly, shallow cinematic creature" stock character...
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Media and gender (section The Manic Pixie Dream Girl)
list of notable instances of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope can be found on the article for Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Damsel in distress serves as a character...
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for the Funny Women award in 2015. She founded and hosted the "Manic Pixie Dream Girls" show as part of Edinburgh's Free Festival in 2016 and 2017. She...
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The story has often been described as a deconstruction of the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" trope, including by Green himself. It debuted at number five on...
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alienating for men. She rejects the description of Ruby Sparks as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, calling it reductive and diminutive, whereas Ruby Sparks is about...
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Some commentators note how Clementine's character criticizes the Manic Pixie Dream Girl stock character several years before film critic Nathan Rabin coined...
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style of romdram maestro Nicholas Sparks" and termed Kya as a "Manic Pixie Dream Girl Murder Suspect". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an...
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naïve and unintelligent. It is regarded as the equivalent of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl and dumb blonde stereotypes in the United States. The loosu ponnu...
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"layers and history to what seems like a Greta Gerwig spin on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl", and described the acting as "quietly powerful". After Fourteen...
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Incredibad, 2009 Manic Pixie Dream Girl, a stock character in film It girl This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dream Girl. If an internal...
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several more singles including "Honeysuckle", "Party Killer", and "Manic Pixie Dream Girl", as well as acoustic versions of his first two singles entitled...
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" Hepburn's character has been cited as an early example of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl film archetype. The popularity of Bringing Up Baby has increased...
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feminist theory The Hawkeye Initiative – Satirical Tumblr page Manic Pixie Dream Girl – Stock character type Portrayal of women in American comics Redshirt...
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Daisy as a "depressingly one-dimensional" character akin to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype: "A sexually liberated woman, she exists as a foil to...
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Rabin grew up on the north side of Chicago. He coined the phrase "manic pixie dream girl" as a cinematic archetype in 2007. He was a panelist on the short-lived...
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analysis – Method to evaluate representation of women in fiction Manic Pixie Dream Girl – Stock character type Mary Sue – Overly competent fictional character...
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of The Globe and Mail, criticized the film for resurrecting the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope popular in independent films of the early 2010s. Chris Knight...
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thoughts here". What's On in Cape Town described Sally Bowles as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, writing "Her iconic solo, 'Maybe This Time', can be considered...
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from work. A modern critic has described her as an example of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, as Clarisse is an unusual sort of person compared to the others...
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In November the same year, the band released their 6th album, "Manic Pixie Dream Girl". In 2010, 1976 joined the original soundtrack album of the Taiwanese...
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2019. Simpson, Dave (July 21, 2022). "Zooey Deschanel: 'Manic pixie dream girl? I'm not a girl. I'm a woman'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved...
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2011). "New Girl: Zooey Deschanel Talks Music, Motivation, and Manic Pixie Dream Girls". Television Without Pity. Archived from the original on March...
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bechdel test Damsel in distress Manic Pixie Dream Girl Mary Sue Reverse harem Tokenism Lori Day; Charlotte Kugler (1 May...
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2021). "A Perfect Enemy review – devious Euro-thriller with the manic pixie dream girl from hell". The Guardian. Mury, Cécile (21 December 2021). "A Perfect...
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surrogate Competent man Girlboss Goody Two-Shoes Ideal womanhood Manic Pixie Dream Girl Pollyanna Tuckerization, when someone is written into a story by...
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character tropes including the "cool girl", the "smart girl", the child prodigy, the white savior and the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. The Take has also created the...
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Elizabethtown (2005) (the first "case file", in which he coined the term "Manic Pixie Dream Girl") The Conqueror (1956) The End of Violence (1997) W. (2008) The...
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