The Hallmark Channel : essays on faith, race and feminism / edited by Emily L. Newman and Emily Witsell.

""Originally known as a brand for greeting cards, Hallmark has seen a surge in popularity since the early 2010s for its made-for-TV movies and television channels: the Hallmark Channel and its spinoffs, Hallmark Movie Channel (now Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) and Hallmark Drama. Hallma...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Newman, Emily L., 1982- (Editor), Witsell, Emily, 1983- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Inc., 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Search for the nostalgic and inoffensive. "Embrace the Community" : Hallmark Channel movies and Childhood Nostalgia / Lisa Tyler
  • Popular feminism and female television stardom in Hallmark original made-for-television movies / Jessica Ford / Faith and religion v. secular morality: The sanitization of Evangelical Christian messaging on the Hallmark Channel / Lisa Beckelhimer
  • Rags to riches to murder: transforming the Cozy mystery through class and violence in the Garage Sale Mystery films / Mitch Ploskonka and Justin Wigard
  • Hallmark's trouble with race. Scenery, sass, sidekicks and sorcery: Hallmark's Tired Caricatures of blackness / Courtney I. Novosat
  • The "white" Christmas problem: analyzing representations of race in Hallmark Holiday films / Joe Lipsett and Brenna Clarke Gray
  • Too white, too heterosexual, too Christian but still watching: a critical analysis of social media posts surrounding Hallmark's Christmas programming / Andi McClanahan
  • Television programming driven by women characters. Hygge and Halloween spirit in Hallmark's Good Witch / Sharon L. Pajka
  • Mothering: a woman's calling and duty on When calls the heart / Jessica Schreyer
  • Cedar Cove and the spaces of Hallmark / Billy Stevenson.