Call Me by Your Name: A Special Issue is a book of essays on Luca Guadagnino’s classic film Call Me by Your Name, available digitally and exclusively on this website.
Call Me by Your Name: A Special Issue
An ebook on Luca Guadagnino’s film
“Captures the film perfectly.” – Gillie Collins, Film Critic
“It made me fall in love with the film all over again.” – Angie Han, Film/TV Critic at The Hollywood Reporter
“I have re-read it more times than I care to admit” – Per M. Mjølkeråen, Film Critic
The ebook Call Me by Your Name: A Special Issue will be delivered to you as both a PDF and ePub.
About the book Call Me by Your Name: A Special Issue
In this book of six essays, discover what makes the film Call Me by Your Name so transporting and ineffable. Return to summer in Italy and swoon all over again.
Alex Heeney analyzes how Guadagnino’s filmmaking transports us to summer in Italy and the headspace of first love.
Brandon Nowalk locates the film in queer cinema history. Orla Smith and Joanna Di Mattia uncover the magic behind Chalamet’s and Hammer’s performances. A group of authors analyze the film’s best scenes.
You’ll want to read and re-read these pieces every time you watch the film — and whenever you wish you could be watching the film but can’t (on the bus, in a waiting room, etc.).
What our readers are saying about the book Call Me by Your Name: A Special Issue
The essential guide to Luca Guadagnino’s film Call Me by Your Name: a book of non-academic essays on the film.
I have reread it more times than I care to admit
“Seventh Row’s Special Issues are of such high standard that one would be excused to think they only belong in hardcover print.
I have re-read some of them more times than I care to admit.
Thanks to the ebooks, I do so on the bus to and from work, while I’m waiting for a movie to start, or just on the bed at home.”
Per M. Mjølkeråen, Film Critic
Captures the film perfectly
CMBYN: A Special Issue, captures the film perfectly. Walking out of the theater after seeing the film, all I wanted was to turn around and watch it again.
I dig Alex Heeney’s essay about time and desire, especially her discussion of the ways in which Elio’s love-lust heightens his sensitivity. It’s as if his body clock is tethered to Oliver’s comings and goings.
Ugh! How did she articulate what felt so ineffable while I was watching?”
Gillie Collins, Film Critic
Indespensible to all fans
“Just purchased my copy. Thanks so much to the writers of @SeventhRow for their wonderful work. As I said, this is indispensable to all fans.”
Made me fall in love with the film all over again
“This very good analysis made me fall in love with Timothée Chalamet’s performance all over again.”
Contents of the book Call Me by Your Name: A Special Issue
Chapter 1: Review of the film Call Me by Your Name
by Alex Heeney
How Guadagnino captures what first love feels like, in all its fumbling, awkward, confusing, terrifying, joyous glory.
Chapter 2: Keeping a straight face: How Call Me by Your Name‘s queer characters get misread
by Brandon Nowalk
How Call Me by Your Name is the latest in a long line of same-sex romances to have its characters diminished as empty vessels, yet this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Chapter 3: Timothée Chalamet’s silent beauty
by Joanna Di Mattia
An essay on how Timothée Chalamet conveys how words aren’t enough for Elio. His body reveals the feelings he leaves unspoken.
Chapter 4: Armie Hammer’s Oliver is more than an object of desire
by Orla Smith
How Armie Hammer’s performance as Oliver weaponizes his star persona, allowing us to misread his character in the same way that Elio does.
Chapter 5: Tricks with time
by Alex Heeney
How Luca Guadagnino’s framing and editing expand and contract time, allowing us to experience it in the same way that Elio and Oliver do.
Chapter 6: Our 11 favourite scenes from CMBYN
Our writers pick their favourite scenes from Call Me by Your Nameand write about what makes them great.
About the authors of the book on Luca Guadagnino’s film Call Me by Your Name
Alex Heeney (Co-Editor and Co-Author) has been a film critic since 2011. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Seventh Row. As a former PhD Candidate in Engineering at Stanford University, she unpacks how the technical aspects of filmmaking create an emotional responses. She has co-edited and co-written all 15 of Seventh Row’s ebooks. She has contributed to other publications including CBC Arts and The Film Stage Podcast.
Orla Smith (Co-Editor and Co-Author) is a filmmaker and has been a film critic since 2016 and was Executive Editor of Seventh Row from 2018-2023. She has contributed to and edited 10+ Seventh Row books and has published in other publications including The Film Stage, Curzon Magazine, and Rogerebert.com.
Brandon Nowalk (Contributor) is a film and TV critic who has published extensively on queer texts in The AV Club and beyond. (His reviews of HBO’s Looking are essential reading.)
Joanna Di Mattia (Contributor) is a film critic who has published in Sydney Morning Herald and Senses of Cinema.
Kristen Lopez (Contributor) is a Latinx film and TV critic and former editor at IndieWire and The Wrap.
Laura Anne Harris, MFA (Contributor) is an award-winning playwright, director, and actor, who also writes film and theatre criticism. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia.
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