Can Romantic Comedy Be Gay?

Can Romantic Comedy Be Gay is an article by Debra A. Moddelmog who advances a queer critique of Hollywood by addressesing romantic comdedy as a genere with a very narrow and marginalizing code for produciton. Furthermore, Moddelmog suggests that because Hollywood's romantic comedy genre is produced so narrowly it solicits a particular audience which reinforces heteronormative coupling, romantic and eternal monogomous love, whiteness, and middle class citizenry, as portrayed by the genre. An interesting point to make is that what characterizes a Hollywood as Hollywood is that these films are produced for a general viewing audience -classically- which in theory should apply to everyone in some sense. Superfiscially this sounds ideal as such an idea is all-ecompassing and equal, i.e. there is something for everyone in a Hollywood fill, as such citizenry is granted to all audiences and everyone lives happily ever after. Still this is not the case, take for example the formula which Moddelmog advances for the production of romantic comedy: white, heterosexual, and middle class. With that in mind, what characterizes Hollywood is not that it has a general appeal and application to everyone but rather it is characterized by the perpetuation of racisits white ideals and homophobic norms. I In Moddelmogs' words "ultimately, romantic comedy is a genre about citizenship, impressing on viewers the form their desire must take for full citizenship to be granted" (p. 162). With that said, romantic comedy as a genre leaves no room for any group besides the the heterosexual middle class white person. In a nutshell, if feminist and queer critque of Hollywood catches your eye generally this is a good read.