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Record for: ELSAESSER, Professor Thomas
Post: Emeritus Professor of Film Studies, Department of Media and Culture, University of Amsterdam
Specialisms: 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
Appointments:
Professor of Film Studies, Department of Media and Culture, University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam (1991-2008)
Lecturer in German University of Sussex (1971-1972)
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English & Comparative Literature University of East Anglia (1972-1991)
Professor, Film Studies University of Amsterdam (1991-2008)
Principal publications:
European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood (Amsterdam UP), 2005
Fassbinder's Germany (Amsterdam University Press), 1996
New German Cinema: A History (Macmillan), 1989
Elected to the Fellowship: 2008 § H6