[Commlist] Humanities special issue: Cross-Fertilizations: European Literature and Hollywood Cinema

Call for papers – special issue Humanities

Cross-Fertilizations: European Literature and Hollywood Cinema (and Vice 
Versa)

Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Audun Engelstad; Prof. Dr. Andrew Spicer

The cross-fertilization between European literature and Hollywood cinema 
has generated innovative forms of storytelling, reshaped genres, and 
challenged artistic boundaries across continents.

Throughout the history of narrative film, literary sources of all kinds 
have served as a crucial reference point. Stories, characters, and 
themes are reworked in the service of cinema, narrative techniques and 
modes of expressions are refashioned to fit the logic of the screen, and 
literary modes of expression are conveyed to a broader audience by the 
popular attraction of film. However, the influence between these arts 
has not been unilateral. Cinematic modes have influenced new types of 
literary imaginations, reshaped genres, and inspired new literary styles 
and narrative forms. Furthermore, although the production, distribution, 
and consumption practices of literature and cinema operate according to 
a different logic, there are also considerable overlaps and cultural 
exchange.

We seek contributions that explore various forms of interrelations 
between literature and cinema across the Atlantic. The direction of 
influence can go both ways: cinematic practices that have literature as 
their base, or literary works that use modes and techniques drawn from 
cinema.

While we welcome examinations that bring esthetic expressions and 
artistic attributes in the two arts to the fore, we also encourage 
studies engaged in (historical) reception, as well as industry-oriented 
approaches, biographical examinations, and other possible explorations. 
Although we are primarily looking for articles that deal with literature 
and film, we will consider proposals on TV drama as well.

The following list of topics may serve as inspiration:

•Twice-adapted Hollywood remakes of European literature

•From European national theatres to Broadway and Hollywood

•The myth of Hollywood in European literature

•Cinematic narrative and European fiction techniques

•Trans-Atlantic authors and auteurs

•Hollywood’s favourite European authors

•Hollywood cinema as an entry to European literature

•Hollywood’s translation of minor European cultures

All articles will be published as open access. Please send a 300-word 
abstract, as well as sources and a brief biography to the editors: Prof. 
Dr. Audun Engelstad _(audun.engelstad@inn.n_o), Prof. Dr. Andrew Spicer 
((_andrew2.spicer /at/ uwe.ac).uk_) and section managing editor Mrs. Yu_e Xiao 
((yue.xiao /at/ mdpi.com) <mailto:(yue.xiao /at/ mdpi.com)>_).

The deadline for abstracts is 1 February 2026.

Please use the subject line: 
“Cross_Fertilization_Europe_Hollywood_Name_Title”.

For further inquiries about the special issue, please contact the 
editors, or the journal’s section managing editor. 
_https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/982N0GC12Z 
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/982N0GC12Z>_

*/Contributors to this Special Issue are exempt from the journal fee 
(CFP)./*


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