Skip to main content
Front page
MediaCommons Front Page
Field Guide
#Alt-Academy
In Media Res
[in]Transition
MediaCommons Press
The New Everyday
Register
Log in
Username or email address
*
You may login with either your assigned username or your e-mail address.
Password
*
The password field is case sensitive.
Forgot Password?
MediaCommons
Search this site:
home
Archives
Gabi Wilson
As contributor
In Media Res
It's time to move on from "Manic Pixie Dream Girl"
By
Gabi Wilson
March 25, 2021
It's time to move on from "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" #ManicPixieDreamGirl Film critic Nathan Rabin coined the now-infamous phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” (MPDG) in an innocuous 2007 review of the film Elizabethtown 1. The phrase became a qui ...