| Tales of sound and fury: Observations on the family melodrama T Elsaesser Film Genre Reader IV, 433-462, 2012 | 1631 | 2012 |
| European cinema: Face to face with Hollywood T Elsaesser Amsterdam University Press, 2005 | 1105 | 2005 |
| Film theory: An introduction through the senses T Elsaesser, M Hagener Routledge, 2015 | 1058 | 2015 |
| New German cinema: a history T Elsaesser Houndmills, BasingstokeReprintedMacmillan, 1994 | 654 | 1994 |
| The mind-game film T Elsaesser The Mind-Game Film, 89-112, 2021 | 549 | 2021 |
| Weimar cinema and after: Germany's historical imaginary T Elsaesser Routledge, 2000 | 549* | 2000 |
| Early Cinema: Space, Frame T Elsaesser, A Barker Narrative, 56-62, 1990 | 430 | 1990 |
| Studying contemporary american film T Elsaesser, W Buckland New YorkArnold/Oxford University Press, 2002 | 429 | 2002 |
| Filmtheorie zur Einführung T Elsaesser, M Hagener Junius Verlag, 2019 | 376 | 2019 |
| Fassbinder's Germany: history, identity, subject T Elsaesser Amsterdam University Press, 1996 | 314 | 1996 |
| The new film history as media archaeology T Elsaesser Cinémas 14 (2), 75-117, 2004 | 313 | 2004 |
| Early cinema: space, frame, narrative T Elsaesser, A Barker Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019 | 299 | 2019 |
| Film history as media archaeology: Tracking digital cinema T Elsaesser Amsterdam University Press, 2017 | 271 | 2017 |
| Cinephilia or the Uses of Disenchantment T Elsaesser Amsterdam University Press, 2005 | 257 | 2005 |
| Postmodernism as mourning work. T Elsaesser Screen 42 (2), 2001 | 253 | 2001 |
| Film festival networks: The new topographies of cinema in Europe T Elsaesser European cinema: Face to face with Hollywood 82, 82-106, 2005 | 218 | 2005 |
| Subject positions, speaking positions: from Holocaust, Our Hitler, and Heimat to Shoah and Schindler's List T Elsaesser The Persistence of History, 145-183, 2014 | 194 | 2014 |
| The “return” of 3-D: On some of the logics and genealogies of the image in the twenty-first century T Elsaesser Critical Inquiry 39 (2), 217-246, 2013 | 175 | 2013 |
| Harun Farocki: Working on the sight-lines T Elsaesser Amsterdam University Press, 2004 | 173* | 2004 |
| The" new" film history T Elsaesser Sight and Sound 55, 1986 | 163 | 1986 |
