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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 Gabriel Josipovici FBA

Creative Writing - English Language and Literature Contemporary Literature Creative Writing - Modern Languages History of the Book

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Professor Dame Hermione Lee FBA

Life-Writing, 19th to 21st century literature, American literature

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Professor Michael Wood FBA

Modern & contemporary literature in English, French, German & Spanish; literary theory; theory of the novel; the history of criticism

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