In the frame of the generous “Literature and Film” subject, the 32nd issue (2/2023) of AIC hosts a spectrum of highly topical themes, such as: migration, race, the East-West divide, the American dream and its deconstruction, social constraint and abuse, trauma and horror (related to Holocaust and war),
journeys across time and space, identity (seen as a new “final frontier”). The adaptation of the written text to the visual
medias, implying both converging and diverging tendencies
between the semiotic codes, remains the main focus of the
contributions within the volume.

Meanwhile, other concerns and perspectives on the relationship between literature and film are advanced: the paper (literature) – stage (theatre) – screen (cinema) triad and its im-/complications, the writing – filming /
directing interconnectedness, the dialogue among arts (literature, cinema, theatre, but also music and painting), the use of data mining tools for textual analysis and, last but not least, the appeal to literature and film in foreign language teaching.

From the Middle Ages to the Remote Future, passing through the Baroque, the Victorian Epoch, the World War and the Postcolonial periods; from the narrative poem to the Elizabethan drama and further from the 19th and 20th century novel up to the cyberpunk rhapsody and other SF subgenres, the present issue brings together literary, film and
cultural studies, semiotics, philosophy and digital humanities.