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Professor Thomas Elsaesser FBA

History and pre-history of cinema and moving image culture 1870s-1900s; European cinema since 1945; German cinema; ‘New Hollywood’ of the 1970s, ‘post-classical’ cinema since the 1990s; architecture and urbanism; avant-garde cinema and installation art
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2008
Year of birth
1943
Year of death
2019
Honours
Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Liège, Belgium (2017); Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2008), Royal Order of the Netherlands Lion (2006)
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830
Website
http://www.thomas-elsaesser.com

Past appointments

Columbia University, New York Visiting Professor

2013 -

University of Amsterdam Emeritus Professor of Film Studies, Department of Media and Culture

2008 -

Yale University Visiting Professor

2006 - 2012

University of Amsterdam Professor, Film & Television Studies

1991 - 2008

University of East Anglia Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English & Comparative Literature

1972 - 1991

University of Sussex Lecturer in German

1971 - 1972

Publications

European Cinema and Continental Philosophy: Film as Thought Experiment (Bloomsbury) 2018

Film History as Media Archaeology (Amsterdam University Press) 2016

Germany Cinema: Terror and Trauma (Routledge) 2013

The Persistence of Hollywood (Routledge) 2012

Film Theory-An Introduction (Routledge) 2010 [with Malte Hagener; 2nd revised edition, 2015]

European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood (Amsterdam UP) 2005

Fassbinder's Germany (Amsterdam University Press) 1996

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Robert Young FBA

Cultural and political history, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, translation, with a particular focus on postcolonial theory

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Professor Jonathan Culler FBA

Literary and cultural theory, particularly narratology and the theory of lyric poetry; French literature of the 19th century

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Professor Esther Leslie FBA

Aesthetics in combination with politics; Marxism and critical theory, especially the work of Walter Benjamin and TW Adorno; the poetics of science and technology; animation; digital culture and the sensorium

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