Multilingualism is a phenomenon that has become increasingly visible in popular cinema and thus is currently a very novel object of academic inquiry. The present volume is a cutting-edge collection of cross- and transdisciplinary takes on this phenomenon and its different aspects. Its topics range from translation theory to political and aesthetic quandaries of audiovisual translation and subtitling, to narratological function of multilingualism in fiction, to language ideologies and language poetics onscreen. Its authorship is a worldwide body of perspectives, whose contributions span a distinctive collection of international, national and regional film traditions.

Gala Rebane is Assistant Professor of Intercultural Competence at Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany).
Ralf Junkerjürgen is Professor of Romance Cultural Studies at University of Regensburg (Germany) and initiator of the supplementary education programme «Competence in Multilingualism».

Audiovisual translation - Subtitling - Transnational cinema - European heritage film - Erasmus movie - Middle Ages Movie - Narratological function of multilingualism in film - Onscreen language ideologies - Onscreen language politics - Aesthetics of multilingualism - Sociolinguistic analysis