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

*Call for chapters: /Call Me by Your Name/ edited collection*

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*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.


*The closing date for receipt of chapter proposals is Monday 6 April 
2020.*We will select the proposals that we feel will make the best 
combination for the collection. We will inform all those who have sent 
us proposals of the outcome of the selection process by Monday 27 April 
2020. We’ll be asking the selected contributors to work to a deadline of 
September 2020 for the completed chapter drafts.


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