Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser is Professor Emeritus at the University of Amsterdam and since 2013, Visiting Professor at Columbia University, USA. Among his most recent books as author are: European Cinema and Continental Philosophy: Film as Thought Experiment (Bloomsbury, 2018); Film History as Media Archaeology (Amsterdam University Press, 2016); The Persistence of Hollywood (Routledge, 2012); German Cinema - Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory Since 1945 (Routledge, 2013); and Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses (Routledge, second edition 2015, with Malte Hagener).