| Professor Thomas Elsaesser Research Professor, Department of Media and Culture, University of Amsterdam Section H6 Year elected: 2008 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 (Corresponding Fellow) |