A Semiotic Approach to Costume Colours: Luca Guadagnino's Adaptation of Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name

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BIDISHA MAJI

Colour, Semiotics, Film, Costume.

This paper deals with a semiotic approach to costume colours in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of André Aciman’s novel Call Me by Your Name. Movies, too, like the written text, have a language of their own. Both the mediums are full of hidden codes. Where literature uses textual codes and depends on conventional linguistic rules to create meaning, the adapted film borrows some codes from the written work and recreates them through visual codes to animate its narration. In modern cinema, colour plays a huge part in the storytelling. The director uses his multiple colour palettes in the background and costumes to create his rainbow on the screen and asks the audience to search for the eighth colour out of it. Colour is one of the most important elements in a good film by which a filmmaker communicates with the audience. During the film adaptation, by playing with costume colours, the director Luca Guadagnino has shown how colour can be used in a semiotic way to peep into the characters’ psyche that even André Aciman’s novel can’t. The costume designer, Giulia Piersanti, has taken some ideas for playing with colour from the book and then used her creativity by using colour as a signifier for the audience to decipher meanings differently.

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BIDISHA MAJI (March-2023). A Semiotic Approach to Costume Colours: Luca Guadagnino's Adaptation of Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 8(3), a341-a349. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2303035.pdf

Volume 8 Issue 3, March-2023

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