Call Me by Your Name - Perspectives on the Film

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.

About the author

Edward Lamberti is the author of Performing Ethics through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader and the editor of Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age. He has a PhD in film studies research from King's College London and is a policy manager at the BBFC. Michael Williams is professor of film studies at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Film Stardom and the Ancient Past: Idols, Artefacts and Epics and Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism: The Rise of the Hollywood Gods. He has published widely on stardom and with a particular focus on queer imagery and reception, and he is also the author of Ivor Novello: Screen Idol.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Edward Lamberti (Editor), Lamberti Edward (Editor), Michael Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2024
• EAN: 9781789389425
• ISBN: 978-1-78938-942-5
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Fiction: special features, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gay & Lesbian studies, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Film Theory & Criticism, Category fiction, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Film history, theory or criticism, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, FICTION / Performing Arts / Film, Television & Radio