- Title
- Popular feminism and television stardom in Hallmark's original made-for-television movies
- Creator
- Ford, Jessica
- Relation
- The Hallmark Channel: Essays on Faith, Race and Feminism p. 32-49
- Relation
- https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.newcastle.edu.au/lib/newcastle/reader.action?docID=6192776&ppg=8
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- For many the made-for-television movie is an object of considerable scorn and derision. Television scholar Gary Edgerton calls the made-for- television movie “the most misunderstood and maligned genre on television.”1 Made-for-television movies were a proverbial punching bag long before peak TV, but the recent emphasis on “cinematic television” and “quality television” seems to have made the gulf between “good” television and made- for- television movies even greater. 2 The made-for-television movie is primarily maligned because of its aesthetics and narrative limitations, but it is also derided because of gendered, raced, and classed taste and value hierarchies. Historically stories about women and for women have been culturally devalued, whether in the form of romance novels, the women’s film, and/or daytime television soap operas. Like these cultural objects, made-for-television movies are caught within a double bind, whereby they are simultaneously disparaged because they are aimed at women and perceived as “bad” for women, because they are politically regressive.
- Subject
- aesthetics; genre; narrative limitations; women
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1463242
- Identifier
- uon:46679
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781476639550
- Language
- eng
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