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Untimely desires, historical efflorescence, and Italy in call me by your name

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Galt, Rosalind and Schoonover, Karl (2019) Untimely desires, historical efflorescence, and Italy in call me by your name. Italian Culture, 37 (1). pp. 64-81. doi:10.1080/01614622.2019.1609220 ISSN 0161-4622.

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Abstract

Critics of Call Me by Your Name/Chiamami col tuo nome (Luca Guadagnino, 2017) have accused the film of being inauthentic. In venues in Italy and internationally, we find the complaint that the film is not really Italian, does not include authentic gay sex, or that it is not authentically gay at all. For some, its bourgeois class fantasy renders it inauthentic in the sense of not being gritty enough, not a true representation of Italy’s class and ethnic diversity. For others, the way Elio’s family are open to his sexuality is implausibly liberal. Regardless of what aspect of the film is being attacked, this problem of authenticity seems to center the negative press. This essay uses these questions as a way to interrogate the film’s relationship to Italian-ness and its representation of homosexuality. Although cries of inauthenticity often serve simply to bolster a conservative approach to cinematic value, setting up a “real” and “true” identity against which a film might fail to measure up, we think this debate over Chiamami exposes a fraught intersection of Italian cinema and gay histories.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies
Journal or Publication Title: Italian Culture
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0161-4622
Official Date: 14 June 2019
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14 June 2019Published
29 January 2019Accepted
Volume: 37
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 64-81
DOI: 10.1080/01614622.2019.1609220
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Italian Culture on 14/06/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01614622.2019.1609220
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 30 January 2019
Date of first compliant Open Access: 14 December 2020
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