Sabine Haenni

Sabine Haenni is Associate Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts and the American Studies Program at Cornell University. She is the author of “The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880-1920” (Minnesota, 2008), and co-editor of “Fifty Key American Films” (Routledge, 2009), “The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films” (2014), and a special issue on "New Images of the City" (2015) of the journal The Global South. She is currently working on a book-length study of cinema in Marseille.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 17, 2020

Introduction: The Porous City

By Sabine Haenni

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Porousness and Cities.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

Porous, adj.

• Full of pores; …

From the Editors' Desk, no. 1, vol. 2February 4, 2017

Migrating Globally, Fighting Back Locally

By Sabine Haenni

[Ed. note: this post is part of an editorial discussion on “Media and the City in Light of Trump, Brexit, and the Global Far Right.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, … Read More

From the Editors' Desk, no. 1, vol. 2January 20, 2017

Are Cities Sanctuaries? Mapping Migration in the Mediated Metropolis

By Sabine Haenni