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A movie hallmark, and Hallmark movies

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An American Icons segment about “The Searchers,” John Ford’s problematic masterpiece featuring John Wayne. Kurt Andersen talks with Carol Stabile about an aspect of the Red Scare that’s received scant attention: the 41 women who were blacklisted from radio and television. And how Mariame Kaba, a prison activist who is black and Muslim, falls hard for something very white and very Christian: Hallmark Christmas movies.

In This Episode

A problematic classic.
American Icons: ‘The Searchers’
Special Coverage
Carol Stabile
Forgotten women of the blacklist
Special Coverage
Luke Macfarlane and Candace Cameron Bure in “A Shoe Addict’s Christmas.”
Guilty Pleasure: The anthropological whiteness of Hallmark Channel Christmas movies
Special Coverage