[Commlist] Call for chapters: Call Me by Your Name edited collection

*Reminder – Call for chapters:*

*/Call Me by Your Name/**edited collection*



*Editors: Edward Lamberti and Michael Williams*



The film /Call Me by Your Name/ (2017), adapted by James Ivory from 
André Aciman’s novel and directed by Luca Guadagnino, has been 
passionately received among audiences and critics ever since its 
release. A love story betweenseventeen-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) 
and graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer), and set in 1983 “Somewhere 
in northern Italy”, as an opening caption tells us, /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. And yet the film is abundantly infused with narrative, 
thematic and stylistic elements that can be read as speaking powerfully 
to questions of sexual identity for modern audiences. We believe this 
ravishing and complex film warrants wider study.


We are therefore planning an edited collection on /Call Me by Your 
Name/. We would like to address how the film helps inform our 
understanding of contemporary sexual identity and romance. To what 
extent does it focus on Elio and Oliver’s relationship specifically and 
to what extent does it tell a more generalised love story? What tensions 
exist between the specific and the general, between the open and the 
hidden, between the past and the present? We are looking for chapters 
that will interrogate these questions in exciting and thought-provoking 
ways.


The film has struck a chord with so many viewers. With this wide appeal 
in mind, we invite proposals for chapters of 6,000-8,000 words from 
established scholars, early-career researchers and students. Chapters 
could include the following topics, individually or in combination:

  * /Call Me by Your Name/as a romance
  * Depictions of sexuality, gender and religious identity in the film
  * /Call Me by Your Name/in relation to contemporary LGBTQ+ cinema
  * /Call Me by Your Name/as an adaptation of André Aciman’s novel
  * The place of /Call Me by Your Name/ in director Luca Guadagnino’s
    body of work
  * /Call Me by Your Name/and the work of James Ivory
  * /Call Me by Your Name/and heritage cinema
  * Analysis of the film style of /Call Me by Your Name/
  * Analysis of specific scenes from the film
  * /Call Me by Your Name/and the era of its story (political, economic,
    spectre of AIDS pandemic)
  * Uses of the past/looking back, within the film and in relation to
    the film itself
  * /Call Me by Your Name/and antiquity
  * Production design in the film (e.g. 1980s, summer villa, Italy,
    towns, countryside, seclusion and openness)//
  * Marketing and distribution, critical reception, and audience/fan
    responses//
  * Analysis of Timothée Chalamet’s performance and emerging stardom
  * Armie Hammer’s role in the film – the star as character actor
  * Music in /Call Me by Your Name/ (classical, 1980s, Sufjan Stevens’
    original songs)
  * Future directions of the story, such as the ‘unused’ sections of the
    novel and Aciman’s new sequel, /Find Me/ (2019)


If you wish to propose a chapter, please send a 300-word proposal along 
with a 100-word biography to Edward Lamberti and Michael Williams at 
*(cmbyncollection /at/ gmail.com)*. If you have any queries during the 
preparation of your proposal, please don’t hesitate to contact us.


*Revised contributor dates:*We are mindful of the fact that the 
coronavirus has impacted on the work of the academic community, that new 
ways of working all need urgent time devoted to them to ensure that 
things run as smoothly as possible for all and that we all need to take 
enough time to look after ourselves and others. We are very keen for our 
/Call Me by Your Name/ edited collection project to continue but we want 
to make things as easy as possible for potential contributors by 
building some more time into the project. We had previously announced a 
deadline of 6 April for sending us proposals, with contributors’ 
chapters to be written by September. *We have decided to extend the 
deadline for sending us proposals to Monday 13 July. *We will select the 
proposals that we feel will make the best combination for the collection 
and we will inform all those who have sent us proposals of the outcome 
of the selection process by Monday 3 August. We would like the selected 
contributors to write their chapters by Monday 18 January 2021. We hope 
this gives you enough time to consider putting in a proposal if you 
haven’t already done so and would like to. We wish all lecturers, 
researchers and students the very best in this challenging time.


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