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MAGA women want a Hallmark "home for the holidays" fantasy — but their votes run their kids off | analyzing Hallmark Channel Christmas movies and their audience (www.salon.com)
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This is actually a great analysis of Hallmark Channel's Christmas movies, and why their plots frequently center on 30-something year old women who abandon their successful big city lives to move back to their home towns and marry the handsome "boy next door." It seems to be a very popular fantasy among the network's primary audience, conservative women aged 50+ (70% of the channel's viewers.)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Citations needed did an amazing analysis of the Hallmark Christmas phenomenon that touches on this and a lot of other stuff

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-152-hallmark-christmas-movies-and-the-cozy-conservative-nostalgia-machine

And a follow-up here about the anti-labor tropes of Hallmark movies

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/a-very-special-news-brief-hallmarks-anti-labor-churn-a-follow-up-conversation