Archive

This collection hosts published and unpublished materials by Thomas Elsaesser from the 1960s through 2021. It spans a wide range of formats including articles, book chapters, conference papers, interviews, lectures, notes, correspondence, and more. The collection and the number of references will continue to grow as materials are catalogued and made available to public.

Introduction: Terror and Trauma

from German Cinema: Terror and Trauma – Cultural Memory since 1945

... wie einst? Lili Marleen

from Rainer Werner Fassbinder [2nd ed.]

Das Subjektive historisieren. Körper und Werk

from Rainer Werner Fassbinder [2nd ed.]

Der nicht versöhnte Sohn. Einleitung

from Rainer Werner Fassbinder [2nd ed.]

Die »BRD-Trilogie« oder: Geschichte als Liebesgeschichte? Die Ehe der Maria Braun, Lola, Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss

from Rainer Werner Fassbinder [2nd ed.]

Fassbinder, Spiegelbilder des Faschismus und der europäische Film

from Rainer Werner Fassbinder [2nd ed.]

Fassbinders Deutschland

from Rainer Werner Fassbinder [2nd ed.]

Frankfurt, Deutsche und Juden. Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod

from Rainer Werner Fassbinder [2nd ed.]

Franz Biberkopfs S/exchanges. Berlin Alexanderplatz

from Rainer Werner Fassbinder [2nd ed.]

Jenseits von Schuld und Schulden. In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden

from Rainer Werner Fassbinder [2nd ed.]

Mord, Fusion, Selbstmord. Eine Reise ins Licht - Dispair

from Rainer Werner Fassbinder [2nd ed.]

Von Teufelskreisen zu Double Binds. Unmögliche Forderungen im Feld des Sichtbaren

from Rainer Werner Fassbinder [2nd ed.]

Reexaminando el cine de atracciones: cambios epistémicos, realineamientos diegéticos y el retorno de Rube en los medios digitales

Thomas Elsaesser, Translation: Cynthia Tompkins

from Imagofagia 3

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Hoe men Duitser wordt

from Het Wonder Bondsrepubliek

Stepping Sideways

from Cinema Journal 49, no. 1

Absence as Presence, Presence as Parapraxis. On Sime Problems of Representing ‘Jews’ in the New German Cinema 1

from Cinema Journal 49, no. 1

2008

Ethical calculus: The cross-cultural dilemmas and moral burdens of Fatih Akin's ‘The Edge of Heaven’

from Film Comment (May–June)

Harun Farocki: Filmmaker, Artist, Media Theorist?

from Afterall 11

Introduction and dossier

Thomas Elsaesser and Harun Farocki

from Senses of Cinema 21

Defining DEFA’s Historical Imaginary: The Films of Konrad Wolf

Thomas Elsaesser and Michael Wedel

from New German Critique 82

Six Degrees of Nosferau

from Sight & Sound February 2001

Fritz Lang: The Illusion of Mastery

from Sight & Sound January 2000

Introduction: A Work Upstaged by Life?

from Fassbinder’s Germany: History, Identity, Subject

Introduction

from New German Cinema: A History [1st ed.]

Myth as Phantasmagoria of History - H. J. Syberberg, Cinema and Representation

from New German Critique 82