Call Me by Your Name

Adapted byJames Ivory from André Aciman's novel anddirected by Luca Guadagnino, the film Call Me by Your Namehas beenpassionately received among audiences andcritics ever since its 2017 release. A love story betweenseventeen-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) andgraduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer) and setin 1983 'Somewhere in northern Italy', Call Me byYour Name presents a gay relationship in aromantic idyll seemingly untroubled by outsidepressures, prejudices or tragedy. While this meansit offers audiences welcome opportunities toswoon in front of an LGBTQ+ romance that equalsclassic heterosexual romances onscreen, itsrelevance or political significance today may notbe immediately apparent. And yet the film isabundantly infused with narrative, thematic andstylistic elements that can be interpreted as speakingpowerfully to contemporary audiences on questions of sexual identity. This edited collection addresses how the film helps inform ourunderstanding of contemporary sexual identity andromance. How does this love story explore widertensions that exist between the specific and thegeneral, between the open and the hidden, andbetween the past and the present? The contributors to the collection explore these questions in stimulating and contemplative manners.