Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser (22 June 1943 – 4 December 2019) was a German movie historian and professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He was born in Berlin. Elsaesser was the writer and director of "The Sun Island ", a documentary essay movie about his grandfather, the architect Martin Elsaesser.
Between 1968 and 1970, he worked for and co-edited a film journal published by the University of Sussex Film Society ("Brighton Film Review"). From 1972 to 1976, Elsaesser taught English, French and Comparative Literature at the University of East Anglia.
On 4 December 2019, Elsaesser died in Beijing of cardiac arrest where he was scheduled to give a lecture at the age of 76.