(500) Days of Postfeminism: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl Stereotype in its Contexts

Vázquez Rodríguez, Lucía Gloria

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dc.creator	Vázquez Rodríguez, Lucía Gloria
dc.date	2017-09-29
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-25T19:05:44Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-25T19:05:44Z
dc.identifier	https://revistaprismasocial.es/article/view/1599
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/129309
dc.description	In 2007, after watching Elizabethtown (2005), film critic Nathan Rabin coined the term Manic Pixie Dream Girl in order to describe a nascent filmic female trope as “that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures” (2007). Since then, the concept acquired enormous widespread cultural currency, and the type of female characters responding to the stereotype multiplied, although not a single thorough scrutiny of its gender values has been undertaken from the Academia, perhaps due to the fact that independent (“indie”) productions – where most of these characters are found – provide their films with a certain patina of ideological credibility. However, with her performance of traditional cute (Ngai, 2012), girlish femininity, her vulnerability, her neoliberal sexual freedom, and, above all, her being-for-the-Other, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl perhaps constitutes the most powerful embodiment of postfeminist ideologies within independent cinema. In addition, her carpe diem philosophy and her “hipster” aesthetics speak directly to the idiosyncrasy of our time, characterized, as Slavoj Zizek (1994) explains, by a social injunction to “Enjoy!.”	en-US
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Fundación iS+D para la Investigación Social Avanzada	es-ES
dc.relation	https://revistaprismasocial.es/article/view/1599/1754
dc.rights	Derechos de autor 2017 Revista Prisma Social	es-ES
dc.source	Revista Prisma Social; 2017: Nº Especial 2 \| Investigación en Comunicación Audiovisual y Estudios de Género; 167-201	en-US
dc.source	Revista Prisma Social; 2017: Nº Especial 2 \| Investigación en Comunicación Audiovisual y Estudios de Género; 167-201	es-ES
dc.source	1989-3469
dc.subject	Postfeminismo	en-US
dc.subject	Manic Pixie Dream Girl	en-US
dc.subject	(500) Dias Juntos	en-US
dc.subject	Zooey Deschanel	en-US
dc.subject	cine indie	en-US
dc.subject	feminidad	en-US
dc.title	(500) Days of Postfeminism: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl Stereotype in its Contexts	en-US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.type	Sección temática	es-ES
dc.type	análisis cualitativo	en-US