Haenni is particularly interested in exploring ways that war has shaped how we think about Americans abroad. After starting with the rise of mass tourism in the late 19th century, the course explores European-American cultural encounters, and in the second half of the semester, will focus on more recent cinema and global issues. Questions surrounding international encounters, modalities of traveling and living abroad, globalization and identity are among the issues Haenni is hoping to address. "It came out of my research - I have been thinking about transnational cinema and also thinking of American cinema in that kind of context, and it struck me that people haven't thought about film and international encounters within my discipline that much," she said. "It's a new course for me, so it's kind of an experiment," said Sabine Haenni, assistant professor of film and American studies who teaches the course. In a new course this semester, Cornell students are exploring for the first time how visual and literary media portray Americans traveling in other countries. The theme of the American abroad has permeated film and fiction for more than a century.
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