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Emily L. Newman

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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. Hallmark's brand of comforting, often sentimental content includes standalone movies, period and contemporary television series, and mystery film series that center on strong, intuitive female leads. By creating reliable and consistent content, Hallmark offers people a calming retreat from the real world.

  This collection of new essays strives to fill the void in academic attention surrounding Hallmark. From the plethora of Christmas movies that are released each year to the successful faith-based scripted programming and popular cozy mysteries that air every week, there is a wealth of material to be explored. Specifically, this book explores the network's problematic relationship with race, the dominance of Christianity and heteronormativity, the significance placed on nostalgia, and the hiring and re-hiring of a group of women who thrived as child stars.

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Emily l. newman.

Emily Newman is a writer, art historian, and professor, who specializes in contemporary art, gender studies, activism, and popular culture. Her current research is focused on late 20th and 21st century activist art, fashion, and visual culture. Additionally, she has co-edited collections in television studies, with a focus on channels and programming geared towards women, youth, and specific targeted audiences. Her first book concerned female body image and contemporary art, in particular, looking at the way that artists have addressed issues of women's body size by exploring dieting, obesity, eating disorders, cutting, etc. Originally from Oklahoma, Newman spends her free time traveling, reading, watching Lifetime movies, and hanging out with her adorable dog Fred.

Presently, Newman is Associate Professor of Art History at Texas A&M University-Commerce in the Department of Liberal Studies. She completed her PhD at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she specialized in contemporary art and gender studies. Attending The Pennsylvania State University, she earned her Masters Degree in art history, while previously graduating from Carleton College (Northfield, MN) with her BA in both studio art and art history.

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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. Hallmark's brand of comforting, often sentimental content includes standalone movies, period and contemporary television series, and mystery film series that center on strong, intuitive female leads. By creating reliable and consistent content, Hallmark offers people a calming retreat from the real world.

This collection of new essays strives to fill the void in academic attention surrounding Hallmark. From the plethora of Christmas movies that are released each year to the successful faith-based scripted programming and popular cozy mysteries that air every week, there is a wealth of material to be explored. Specifically, this book explores the network's problematic relationship with race, the dominance of Christianity and heteronormativity, the significance placed on nostalgia, and the hiring and re-hiring of a group of women who thrived as child stars.

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• Print length 211 pages
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ McFarland and Company, Inc. (May 4 2020)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 211 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1476678103
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1476678108
• Item weight ‏ : ‎ 291 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.07 x 22.86 cm

About the author

Emily l. newman.

Emily Newman is a writer, art historian, and professor, who specializes in contemporary art, gender studies, activism, and popular culture. Her current research is focused on late 20th and 21st century activist art, fashion, and visual culture. Additionally, she has co-edited collections in television studies, with a focus on channels and programming geared towards women, youth, and specific targeted audiences. Her first book concerned female body image and contemporary art, in particular, looking at the way that artists have addressed issues of women's body size by exploring dieting, obesity, eating disorders, cutting, etc. Originally from Oklahoma, Newman spends her free time traveling, reading, watching Lifetime movies, and hanging out with her adorable dog Fred.

Presently, Newman is Associate Professor of Art History at Texas A&M University-Commerce in the Department of Liberal Studies. She completed her PhD at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she specialized in contemporary art and gender studies. Attending The Pennsylvania State University, she earned her Masters Degree in art history, while previously graduating from Carleton College (Northfield, MN) with her BA in both studio art and art history.

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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. Hallmark's brand of comforting, often sentimental content includes standalone movies, period and contemporary television series, and mystery film series that center on strong, intuitive female leads. By creating reliable and consistent content, Hallmark offers people a calming retreat from the real world.

This collection of new essays strives to fill the void in academic attention surrounding Hallmark. From the plethora of Christmas movies that are released each year to the successful faith-based scripted programming and popular cozy mysteries that air every week, there is a wealth of material to be explored. Specifically, this book explores the network's problematic relationship with race, the dominance of Christianity and heteronormativity, the significance placed on nostalgia, and the hiring and re-hiring of a group of women who thrived as child stars.

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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. Hallmark’s brand of comforting, often sentimental content includes standalone movies, period and contemporary television series, and mystery film series that center on strong, intuitive female leads. By creating reliable and consistent content, Hallmark offers people a calming retreat from the real world. This collection of new essays strives to fill the void in academic attention surrounding Hallmark. From the plethora of Christmas movies that are released each year to the successful faith-based scripted programming and popular cozy mysteries that air every week, there is a wealth of material to be explored. Specifically, this book explores the network’s problematic relationship with race, the dominance of Christianity and heteronormativity, the significance placed on nostalgia, and the hiring and re-hiring of a group of women who thrived as child stars.

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Emily L. Newman is associate professor of art history at Texas A&M University–Commerce, specializing in contemporary art, popular culture, and gender studies. She lives in McKinney, Texas.

Emily Witsell is research librarian and coordinator of reference and instruction at Wofford College. She lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

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Edited by Emily L. Newman and Emily Witsell

Format: softcover (6 x 9) Pages: 211 Bibliographic Info: notes, bibliography, index Copyright Date: 2020 pISBN: 978-1-4766-7810-8 eISBN: 978-1-4766-3955-0 Imprint: McFarland

Table of Contents

Introduction (Emily L. Newman and Emily Witsell) 1

The Search for the Nostalgic and Inoffensive “Embrace the Community”: Hallmark Channel Movies and Childhood Nostalgia (Lisa Tyler) 17 Popular Feminism and Female Television Stardom in Hallmark Original ­Made-for-Television Movies (Jessica Ford) 32 Faith and Religion v. Secular Morality: The Sanitization of Evangelical Christian Messaging on the Hallmark Channel (Lisa Beckelhimer) 50 Rags to Riches to Murder: Transforming the Cozy Mystery Through Class and Violence in the Garage Sale Mystery Films (Mitch Ploskonka and Justin Wigard) 67 Hallmark’s Trouble with Race (Scenery, Sass, Sidekicks and Sorcery: Hallmark’s Tired) Caricatures of Blackness (Courtney L. Novosat) 89 The “White” Christmas Problem: Analyzing Representations of Race in Hallmark Holiday Films (Joe Lipsett and Brenna Clarke Gray) 105 Too White, Too Heterosexual, Too Christian but Still Watching: A Critical Analysis of Social Media Posts Surrounding Hallmark’s Christmas Programming (Andi McClanahan) 122 Television Programming Driven by Women Characters Hygge and Halloween Spirit in Hallmark’s Good Witch (Sharon L. Pajka) 145 Mothering: A Woman’s Calling and Duty on When Calls the Heart (Jessica Schreyer) 159 Cedar Cove and the Spaces of Hallmark (Billy Stevenson) 174

About the Contributors 189 Bibliography 191 Index 197

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Jessica Ford

Dr Jessica Ford is a Lecturer in Media at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her research examines women and feminism on screen, and she has published on Orange is the New Black, Girls, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Better Things in peer-reviewed journals, academic anthologies and journalistic outlets.

• 2023–present Lecturer in Media, University of Adelaide
• 2019–2022 Lecturer in Screen & Cultural Studies, University of Newcastle
• 2012–2017 PhD Candidate, UNSW
• 2012–2017 Sessional Tutor, UNSW
• 2015–2015 Postgraduate Teaching Fellow, UNSW
• 2017  UNSW, PhD
• 2010  University of Newcastle, Bachelor of Arts (Hons)

Publications

• 2020 Can prison be a feminist space?: Interrogating television representations of women’s prisons, The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture, eds. Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes and Barbara Harmes (Palgrave)
• 2020 Popular feminism and television stardom in Hallmark’s original made-for-television movies, The Hallmark Channel: Essays on Faith, Race and Feminism, eds. Emily L. Newman & Emily Witsell. (McFarland)
• 2019 The musical number as feminist intervention in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (co-author: Phoebe Macrossan), Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (8.1)
• 2018 Rebooting Roseanne: Feminist voice across decades., M/C Journal (21.5)
• 2018 Smuggling Feminism into Family TV: Are Jane by Design and Bunheads riding a new feminist wave?, ABC Family Anthology. Eds. by Emily L. Newman and Emily Witsell (McFarland & Co.)
• 2018 Feminist cinematic television: Authorship, aesthetics and gender in Pamela Adlon’s Better Things, fusion journal (14)
• 2016 The "smart" body politics of Lena Dunham's Girls, Feminist Media Studies (16.4)
• 2014 Feminist and Postfeminist Discourses: Reading the Britta Problem, A Sense of Community: Essays on the Television Series & its Fandom. Ed. Ann-Gee Lee (McFarland & Co, Inc)
• 2012 Coming Out of the Broom Closet: Willow's Sexuality and Empowerment in Buffy, The Joss Whedon Companion. Ed. Mary Alice Money (Titan Books)

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