Call Me by Your Name (Paperback)

Paperback. This edited collection explores how Luca Guadagnino's film Call Me by Your Name speaks powerfully to questions of contemporary sexual identity and romance. Adapted by James Ivory from Andre Aciman's novel and directed by Luca Guadagnino, the film Call Me by Your Name has been passionately received among audiences and critics ever since its 2017 release. A love story between seventeen-year-old Elio (Timothee Chalamet) and graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer) set in 1983 "somewhere in northern Italy," Call Me by Your Name presents a gay relationship in a romantic idyll seemingly untroubled by outside pressures, prejudices, or tragedy. While this means it offers audiences welcome opportunities to swoon in front of an LGBTQ+ romance that equals classic heterosexual romances onscreen, its relevance or political significance today may not be immediately apparent. This edited collection points out the ways in which the film is abundantly infused with narrative, thematic, and stylistic elements that can be interpreted as speaking powerfully to contemporary audiences on questions of sexual identity. How does this love story explore wider tensions that exist between the specific and the general, between the open and the hidden, and between the past and the present? The contributors to this collection provide stimulating and contemplative responses to this question. Enthusiastically received since its 2017 release, Luca Guadagnino's film Call Me by Your Name tells the love story between seventeen-year-old Elio and graduate student Oliver. This edited collection explores how the film speaks powerfully to questions of contemporary sexual identity and romance. 35 b&w illus. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…