As he recently commented on the sad state of globalized affairs in which “the cosmopolitanism of international filmmaking is matched by the parochialism of American film culture,” New York Times film critic A.O. Scott asked, “The whole world is watching, why aren’t Americans?” This course will use Scott’s question as a point of departure to investigate the ostensible reasons why Americans, or in our case, Philadelphians, aren’t watching “transnational cinema” – international films that gain distribution outside of their country of production, and that depict transnational movements of people, capital, and social values. Are transnational films playing at a theatre near you? Perhaps they are, but if not, why not? Which “foreign films” are allowed to cross the border into our country? How, when, and where do we get to “see the world” and why does that matter in today’s globalized, interconnected world? Learn “how to see the world” – not as a one-dimensional quaint or exotic representation of the “other” – but instead through the ways in which these films engage critical contemporary issues of nation, transnation, and globalization in an increasingly interconnected transnational public sphere. Note: This course fulfills the Arts (GA) requirement for students under GenEd and Arts (AR) for students under Core.