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- Title
FICTION AND FILM ANALYSIS Homonormativity and the queer love story in Love, Simon (2018) and Happiest Season (2020).
- Authors
FRANCIS, ISABELLA
- Abstract
In this article, I analyse two same-sex romantic comedies, Happiest Season (DuVall, 2020) and Love, Simon (Berlatti, 2018). Using a dialectic reading and the concepts of homonormativity and post-gay consumerism, I explore the ideological function of interpellating LGBTQ+ consumers into the mainstream. I draw on Sara Ahmed’s conception of the good life to understand the framing of the family and the monogamous relationship within the genre of romantic comedies. I also pay attention to consumer perceptions of LGBTQ+ representation more generally. I conclude that, despite the utopian kernel of queer happiness signified by these movies, the inclusion of lesbian and gay main characters in the romantic comedy genre also serves the ideological function of assimilating queerness into the mainstream in ways that reinforce other relationship-based norms, such as monogamy and family orientation.
- Publication
Women's Studies Journal, 2021, Vol 35, Issue 1, p80
- ISSN
0112-4099
- Publication type
Academic Journal