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Thomas Elsaesser


Thomas Elsaesser (born 1943, in Berlin-Charlottenburg) is an international film historian and professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam.


Thomas Elsaesser was born in 1943 in Berlin. The grandson of the architect Martin Elsaesser, he spent his childhood in Upper Franconia and in 1951 moved with his family to Mannheim, where from 1955 to 1962 he attended a Humanist Gymnasium, before studying English and German Literature at the Ruprecht-Karl University in Heidelberg. In 1963 Elsaesser left Germany for the United Kingdom, where he studied English literature at the University of Sussex (1963–1966); after receiving his B.A. degree there, he spent a year at the Sorbonne in Paris (1967–68). In 1971 he received his doctorate in Comparative Literature with a thesis on Jules Michelet and Thomas Carlyle’s Histories of the French Revolution from the University of Sussex .

Between 1968 and 1970, he contributed to and co-edited a film journal published by the University of Sussex Film Society (Brighton Film Review). Other editors included Phil Hardy, David Morse and Gary Herman. He subsequently edited a similar journal (Monogram) from 1971 to 1975 in London, encouraged by Peter Wollen and supported by a grant from the Education Department of the British Film Institute. Writing as a film critic and theorist of classical Hollywood cinema, it was his essay on Hollywood melodrama (Tales of Sound and Fury, 1972) that made Elsaesser known internationally.


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