The International Journal of Novel Research and Development, 2023
This paper deals with a semiotic approach to costume colours in Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of A... more 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.
This paper concerns how, from a dilemmatic character at the beginning of the novel to a fully dev... more This paper concerns how, from a dilemmatic character at the beginning of the novel to a fully developed character, Madhu in Anosh Irani’s The Parcel becomes free by accepting herself as she is. The Parcel is a story about the protagonist, Madhu, who has spent most of her life as a transgender sex worker in the notorious red-light district of Bombay, Kamathipura. Madhu, throughout her life, can’t understand her body and soul and chooses to remain in her mind’s closet. As a boy in childhood, Madhu knew that his soul was fitted into the wrong body. So, she tried to fit into the hijra community for acceptance, but Madhu rejected the soul’s desires. Since Madhu’s childhood, Madhu had faced much ostracization from family, friends, and the whole society and chose to remain unhappy by accepting those condemnations. Accepting your own body and listening to your soul is more important for coming out of the closet to the queer community than the acceptance of a dominant patriarchal society. Ma...
The International Journal of Novel Research and Development, 2023
This paper deals with a semiotic approach to costume colours in Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of A... more 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.
This paper concerns how, from a dilemmatic character at the beginning of the novel to a fully dev... more This paper concerns how, from a dilemmatic character at the beginning of the novel to a fully developed character, Madhu in Anosh Irani’s The Parcel becomes free by accepting herself as she is. The Parcel is a story about the protagonist, Madhu, who has spent most of her life as a transgender sex worker in the notorious red-light district of Bombay, Kamathipura. Madhu, throughout her life, can’t understand her body and soul and chooses to remain in her mind’s closet. As a boy in childhood, Madhu knew that his soul was fitted into the wrong body. So, she tried to fit into the hijra community for acceptance, but Madhu rejected the soul’s desires. Since Madhu’s childhood, Madhu had faced much ostracization from family, friends, and the whole society and chose to remain unhappy by accepting those condemnations. Accepting your own body and listening to your soul is more important for coming out of the closet to the queer community than the acceptance of a dominant patriarchal society. Ma...
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