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==Further reading== |
==Further reading== |
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* {{cite book |last1=Levine |first1=Michal P. |last2=Schneider |first2=Steven Jay |editor-last=South |editor-first=James B. |title=[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale]] |chapter=Feeling for Buffy: The Girl Next Door |chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=dx_n2IDCJqUC&pg=PA294&lpg=PA294&focus=viewport&vq=%22Feeling+for+Buffy:+The+Girl+Next+Door.%22&dq=Buffy+the+Vampire+Slayer+and+Philosophy:+Fear+and+Trembling+in+Sunnydale#v=onepage&q=%22Feeling%20for%20Buffy%3A%20The%20Girl%20Next%20Door.%22&f=false |year=2003 |publisher=Open Court |isbn=978-0-8126-9531-1 |pages=294–308}} |
* {{cite book |last1=Levine |first1=Michal P. |last2=Schneider |first2=Steven Jay |editor-last=South |editor-first=James B. |title=[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale]] |chapter=Feeling for Buffy: The Girl Next Door |chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=dx_n2IDCJqUC&pg=PA294&lpg=PA294&focus=viewport&vq=%22Feeling+for+Buffy:+The+Girl+Next+Door.%22&dq=Buffy+the+Vampire+Slayer+and+Philosophy:+Fear+and+Trembling+in+Sunnydale#v=onepage&q=%22Feeling%20for%20Buffy%3A%20The%20Girl%20Next%20Door.%22&f=false |year=2003 |publisher=Open Court |isbn=978-0-8126-9531-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/buffyvampireslay00sout/page/294 294–308] }} |
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**From a review: "To Michal Levine and Steven Jay Schneider ... Buffy is just another unconscious Freudian reality tale starring the proverbial girl next door." - in: ''[[Joss Whedon]]: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books, and More'' |
**From a review: "To Michal Levine and Steven Jay Schneider ... Buffy is just another unconscious Freudian reality tale starring the proverbial girl next door." - in: ''[[Joss Whedon]]: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books, and More'' |
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* {{cite news|last1=[[Frank Rich]]|first1=Rich|title=Journal: The Girl Next Door|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/20/opinion/journal-the-girl-next-door.html|accessdate=January 30, 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 20, 1994|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503063929/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/20/opinion/journal-the-girl-next-door.html|archivedate=2009-05-03|url-status=live}} |
* {{cite news|last1=[[Frank Rich]]|first1=Rich|title=Journal: The Girl Next Door|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/20/opinion/journal-the-girl-next-door.html|accessdate=January 30, 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 20, 1994|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503063929/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/20/opinion/journal-the-girl-next-door.html|archivedate=2009-05-03|url-status=live}} |
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Revision as of 00:23, 18 December 2019
The girl next door is a young female stock character who is often used in romantic stories. She is so named because she often lives next door to the protagonist or is a childhood friend. They start out with a mutual friendship that later often develops into romantic attraction.
A similar expression is "boy next door".
Characteristics
A "girl next door" character is often seen as natural, unpretentious, and a tomboy. A trope that evokes nostalgia, it is associated with small towns and more local or even rural ways of life.[1] The girl next door is often portrayed as an innocent virgin who lacks the promiscuity or sexual sophistication that is associated with the big city.[1]
Doris Day of 1950s is described as a pioneering embodiment of the "girl next door" image in film,[1] the "Hollywood's girl next door".[2]
A common cliche is when a male protagonist is caught in a love triangle between two women, he will usually choose the "sweet, ordinary, and caring girl next door" he grew up with rather than a more well-off or beautiful woman with fewer morals.[3] Other times, this character ignores the hero for another male character, despite being the object of his affections.[4][better source needed]
See also
References
- ^ a b c McDonald, Tamar Jeffers. Doris Day Confidential: Hollywood, Sex and Stardom. London. pp. 77-86. ISBN 0857722794. OCLC 862101452.
- ^ "Actress And Singer Doris Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door, Dies At 97"
- ^ Ebert's bigger little movie glossary : a greatly expanded and much improved compendium of movie clichés, stereotypes, obligatory scenes, hackneyed formulas, shopworn conventions, and outdated archetypes. Ebert, Roger. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel. 1999. ISBN 0740792466. OCLC 829154479.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Romancing the zombie : essays on the undead as significant "other". Szanter, Ashley,, Richards, Jessica K.,, Bishop, Kyle William, 1973-. Jefferson, North Carolina. p. 45. ISBN 147666742X. OCLC 987796701.
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Further reading
- Levine, Michal P.; Schneider, Steven Jay (2003). "Feeling for Buffy: The Girl Next Door". In South, James B. (ed.). Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Open Court. pp. 294–308. ISBN 978-0-8126-9531-1.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)- From a review: "To Michal Levine and Steven Jay Schneider ... Buffy is just another unconscious Freudian reality tale starring the proverbial girl next door." - in: Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books, and More
- Frank Rich, Rich (February 20, 1994). "Journal: The Girl Next Door". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2009-05-03. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
- The article criticizes Sports Illustrated for their misuse of term "girl next door": "Otherwise the magazine is still pushing what Ms. Brinkley repeatedly described as the "natural beauty" of "what readers long for -- the girl next door". Who is the girl next door? Her fake name keeps changing but she is still the same empty-headed, smiling, air-brushed mannequin who appeared in Playboy in the 1950s and early 60s..."
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