(Film Culture in Transition, published by Amsterdam University Press and University of Chicago Press) and he was co-founder of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA), set up after the US-American model of a Humanities Graduate School. In 2005, Elsaesser founded the international MA Programme in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image. From 1976, Elsaesser taught as a visiting professor at American universities including the University of Iowa, University of California (Los Angeles, San Diego, Berkeley, Irvine, Santa Barbara), New York University and Yale University. From 1993-1999, he was Professor II at the University of Bergen, Norway, and in 2005-2006 he held the Ingmar Bergman Chair at Stockholm University. In 2006-2007 he was a Leverhulme Professor at the University of Cambridge. In addition, he taught several times as a visiting professor at the University of Hamburg, the Free University of Berlin and the University of Vienna. In 2003, he was a Fellow at the IFK-International Research Center for Cultural Studies Vienna, in 2004 Fellow at the Sackler Institute of the University of Tel Aviv, and in 2007 Overseas Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. From 2006-2012, Elsaesser taught one semester a year at Yale University as a visiting professor. Since 2013 he was Visiting Professor, The School of the Arts at Columbia University. From 2000 to 2005, he was in charge of an international research project on "Cinema Europe" at the University of Amsterdam. The project resulted in several book publications on European cinema and film history, such as a study on the relationship between Hollywood and Europe (European Cinema – Face to Face with Hollywood), on Contemporary Cinephilia (Cinephilia - Movies, Love and Memory), on the European avant-garde and film society movement (Moving Forward Looking Back), on Lars von Trier’s cinema as gaming prototype (Playing the Waves) and the European Film Festival circuit (Film Festivals - From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia). Other studies from the project were devoted to comparative studies, such as Post-classical Narration and World Cinema, Cinema, War and Memory, Finnish Visual Culture, Music in European cinema of the 1990s, and several studies on European Cities and Media Culture. Assessment of work Elsaesser is an important representative of international film studies, whose books and essays on film theory, genre theory, Hollywood, film, history, archeology media and new media, the European cinema d'auteur and installation art have been published in more than 20 languages. Elsaesser is known