Manic Pixie Dream Girl
.This article is within the scope of, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the and see a list of open tasks.This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's.This article is/was the subject of an in Fall 2014. Further details were available on the 'Education Program:Cornell University/Online Communities (Fall 2014)' page, which is now unavailable on the wiki.The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:., The Guardian, Stuart Heritage, 23 July 2013.There is no 'synthesis'. I presented the facts, I did not synthesise any conclusion. There is both a primary (the dialogue quoted) and a secondary (a review) source both using the word 'pixie'. Unlike many other examples here, all just the opinion of some reviewer.
Anyone who watched the episode could see this was indeed a MPDG, but I did not just add it based on my own opinion. 05:21, 30 July 2013 (UTC)This article is about the stock character in films called the 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl'. Not every pixie is an MPDG. (Similarly, not every 'negro' who is magical is a '.) Yes, the dialogue and review both use the word 'pixie'. Neither one, however, is referring to the stock character that this article is about. 13:54, 30 July 2013 (UTC) Katharine Hepburn 'Rabin points to Katharine Hepburn's character in Bringing Up Baby (1938) as one of the earliest examples of the archetype'Really? Unless I missed something, it looks like it is the commenter called 'Kathryn' who brings up this example.
Rabin does not mention either Katharine Hepburn or Bringing up Baby in the review text.Cheers07:13, 12 August 2013 (UTC)Counterexample Eternal Sunshine This is also first mentioned by a reviewer, here:Three years earlier than the reference given. — Preceding comment added by 07:22, 12 August 2013 (UTC) Amy Adams in Enchanted I think Amy Adams in is a perfect example of this genre plus she is from a fantasy, cartoon world. The man she saves is due to marry a woman who is all wrong for him. I don't know enough about this topic to find references for it, perhaps someone who does could add it.
Rissa - bossy, obsessive/compulsive copy editor 21:30, 30 March 2014 (UTC)The only way we could add this would be with a reliable source pointing to Giselle as an example of a MPDG. We are unlikely to find that as Giselle is pretty much the in the film: Everyone from the fantasy world has an interest in finding her (whether to marry her or kill her) and she is the nexus for the real world characters as well. That the film is a direct parody of so many princess movie themes, of course, blurs the lines considerably.
Manic Pixie Dream Girl Definition
Is her goal to find her purported true love, find that the purported true love is not her true love or merely find her true true love? (A typical princess movie's goal is much easier: marry a prince and live happily ever after.) In any case, long story short, we would need a source. 22:32, 30 March 2014 (UTC) COMM 3460 - Updates to Manic Pixie Dream Girl For Cornell's COMM 3460 - Crowds, Communities and Technologies, we will be updating and editing this Wikipedia page., Communications., Communications., Communications., Computer ScienceUpdates: We plan to update the section on criticism and debate to include details on the recent controversy in which the coiner of the term attempted to redact it. Further, we plan to expand the section on the original coining of the term, detailing the more specific point that the coiner made about Elizabethtown and Kirsten Dunst in it.We will organize the examples and counter-examples sections to create more thorough and readable lists of films that have been popularly called 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl' films by a TBD number of critics.Further, we would add a section on this trope has functioned in television and television criticism. We would also add a section on academic writings on the subject.Our primary sources will be television and film reviews and widely circulated criticism (for subjective quotes and justification of inclusion of a film, only), communication/media studies journals and the original MPDG/redacting the MPDG articles written by Nathan Rabin.
Manic Pixie Dream Girl Examples
21:16, 17 September 2014 (UTC) 18:40, 11 September 2014 (UTC)Hi folks, please remember to sign your talk page edits using four tildes , don't leave a post unsigned. Also use references correctly, such as the reference to the course page should not be a. Make sure your sources are notable - scientific articles from journals are okay; reviews written by unknown critics in less-well-known sites are not. Happy editing!
18:23, 11 September 2014 (UTC) Hi, thanks for the reminder on signing and linking with. RE: sources, we were planning on using these popular media sources not for objective fact but to provide context of the discourse surrounding MPDGs.
'Insert movie title was popularly characterized as an example of the MPDG trope by insert publication or author' We believe this is preferable to merely listing MPDG examples, considering how subjective our creation of that list would inherently be. We have noticed this method of citation on various other popular culture articles. 21:16, 17 September 2014 (UTC)More specific plans:To create a section entitled 'Manic Pixie Dream Boy' in order to discuss the spin-off term and the tropes appearance in recent cinema.
Popular discussion focused on Augustus Waters in the film adaptation of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and on TV characters such as Parks and Recreation's Ben Wyatt and 30 Rock's Criss Chros. The case for calling Augustus Waters a Manic Pixie Dream Boy. The case for calling Ben Wyatt and Criss Chros Manic Pixie Dream GuysFurther, we would like to expand the criticism and debate section by including a new subsection about Nathan Rabin's 2007 coinage of the term as well as his 2014 retraction of the term. We would also add (to the original section, not the NR subsection) discussion of the 2013 debate about whether the term had 'died.' . Original Nathan Rabin article:.
Nathan Rabin article retracting the term:. The Manic Pixie Dream Girl Has Died. Girls on Film: Why it's time to retire the term 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl'. Is the Manic Pixie Dream Girl Dead?. 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl' Has Lost All MeaningTo clarify and expand on the 'Examples' section, we will refer to two academic papers on the topic which have been peer-reviewed and accessed through the Cornell University Library. Each provides justification that we believe sufficient for including an example on this page.
Deciphering the Manic Pixie Mythos (From Randolph College Journal of Academic Writing). Manic Pixie Dream Girls (From Emory College Electronic Theses) 21:56, 17 September 2014 (UTC)You might try turning all these plans of yours into a wiki formatted list, so that it's more readable. Otherwise I think you have a good plan. You might want to compile a list of characters (and what story/film they are from) that have been classified as MPDGs. I was also thinking that there might be less pop-y sources (maybe psychology or sociology of archetypes). I'm looking forward to seeing how you develop this article!
18:02, 23 September 2014 (UTC)Funny you should say that (about turning the plans into a list) - just did something very minor in that direction, for exactly the reason you stated.