Introduction / Massimo Fusillo -- The aesthetics of fictional cinema. The killing vision: David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest / Stefano Ercolino -- Hybridizations. Writing the making of: a new literary genre? / Jan Baetens -- A film run in installments": memory and cinema in Tom McCarthy's Remainder / Vincenzo Magyitti-- Towards other \vorlds, towards other meanings: screenplays on the edge of the plot / Clotilde Bertoni -- Paul Auster, Hector Mann and the Book of illusion / Anna Scannavini -- Manana en La batalla piensa en mi: cinema, theatre, television and the creative force of the word / Federica Ivaldi -- Failed cinema. Quo vadis- Kino?" Kurt Pinthus and the theoretical dehate on the birth of cinema in Germany / Laca Lenobi -- The Outer Life of Martin Frost, or never make an imaginary film / Silvia Alberlazzi -- On conceiving (and sometimes not succeeding in making) a film / Giulio Iacoli -- The politics of fictional cinema. The "quasi-truth": literature and cinema in Starnone and Piccolo / Gianluigi Simonetti -- Breakfast at the prater: Christopher Ishenvood, his Vomen and Men / Gian Fiero Piretto -- Alpdriicken and the spectrum of power in Gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon / Mirko Lino -- Pattern recognition: the "Postdnema" seen by William Gibson / Simone Arcagni.