primarily for his studies on almost every period of German film history, from early film (A Second Life: German Cinema’s First Decade), the cinema of the Weimar Republic (Weimar Cinema and After: Germany’s Historical Imaginary) and Fritz Lang (Metropolis), including the much-cited New German Cinema – A History, as well as a monograph on Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a study on the afterlife of the Nazi era in German post-war film, an anthology on the work of Harun Farocki and The BFI Companion to German Cinema. Besides his publications on German cinema, Elsaesser has also edited and co-edited collections on Early Cinema, Television, New Media, as well as co-authoring a book on Contemporary Hollywood (Studying Contemporary American Film, with Warren Buckland) and an innovative Introduction to Film Theory (Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses, with Malte Hagener). Awards His book New German Cinema: A History won both the 1990 Jay Leyda Prize (awarded by Anthology Film Archives in New York City) and the Kathy Singer Kovacs Prize (awarded by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies). His Weimar Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary received once more the Kathy Singer Kovacs Prize for best film book of 1998. His book European Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood won the 2006 Premio Limina-Carnica, an annual prize awarded by the University of Udine Film Conference for the best international book in cinema studies. In 2006, Elsaesser received the Royal Order of the Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw. In 2008 the Society for Film and Media Studies honored him with a "Distinguished Career Achievement Award". Also in 2008 he was elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. In March 2017, Elsaesser was awarded a doctor honoris causa by the Université de Liège On the occasion of Elsaesser's 60th birthday, Die Spur durch den Spiegel ("The path through the mirror") was issued, edited by Malte Hagener, Johannes N. Schmidt, und Michael Wedel. A further commemorative publication was issued for his 65th birthday, with contributions by colleagues and former students: Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser. Death On 4 December 2019, Thomas Elsaesser died unexpectedly aged 76 in Beijing, where he was scheduled to give a lecture. Selected bibliography New German Cinema: A History (1989, Basingstoke: Macmillan and Rutgers University Press; reprinted 1994; translated into Chinese and Hungarian) Early Cinema: Space Frame Narrative (1990, edited: London: British Film Institute