Thomas Elsaesser (ed.), Harun Farocki: Working on the Sight Lines (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004) 398 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser [with A. Horwath and N. King] (eds)., The Last Great American Picture Show (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004) 391 pp, ill.
Thomas Elsaesser [with Warren Buckland], Studying Contemporary American Film (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) 309 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser, Filmgeschichte und frühes Kino (Munich: edition text + kritik, 2002) 346 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser and Michael Wedel (eds.), Kino der Kaiserzeit (Munich: text + kritik, 2002) 430 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser, Metropolis (Hamburg: Europe Verlag, 2001) 112 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Berlin: Bertz Verlag, 2001) 396 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser, Weimar Cinema and After (London: Routledge, 2000) 472 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser, Metropolis (London: BFI Classic, 2000) 87 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser (ed.), Hollywood op straat (Amsterdam: Vossius Press, 2000) 267 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser, Das Weimarer Kino: aufgeklärt und doppelbödig (Berlin: Vorwerk8, 1999) 386 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser (ed.), The BFI Companion to German Cinema (London: B Film Institute, 1999) 220 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser and Kay Hoffmann (eds), Cinema Futures: Cain, Abel or Cable? The Screen Arts in the Digital Age (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1998) 312 pp. [Korean translation: Seoul, 2002]
Thomas Elsaesser, Fassbinder's Germany: History Identity Subject (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1996) 396 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser (ed.), A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1996) 352 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Edgar Reitz, Der Zweite Atem des Kinos (Munich: Verlag der Autoren, 1996) 160 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser and Carolien Croon (eds), Hoogste Tijd voor een speelfilm (Amsterdam: Theatre Books, 1995) 143 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser, Jan Simons and Lucette Bronk (eds), Writing for the Medium: Television in Transition (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1994) 220 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser, Der Neue Deutsche Film (Munich: Heyne, 1994) 386 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser, Robert Kievit and Jan Simons (eds), Double Trouble: Chiem van Houweninge on Writing and Filming (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1994) 197 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser and Karel Dibbets (eds), Nieuwe Doelen: vijf voorbeelden van film- en televisiewetenschap (Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1991) 70 pp.
Thomas Elsaesser (ed), Early Cinema: Space Frame Narrative (London: British Film Institute and Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990) 424 pp, ill.
Thomas Elsaesser, New German Cinema: A History (London/Basingstoke: Macmillan, and New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989) 430 pp, ill. (2nd edition, 1994).
Thomas Elsaesser, German Cinema: Seven Decades, Seven Films (London: Goethe Institute, 1985) 32 pp. ill.