Eric Schaefer

This article is about the film historian/professor. For the theater director, see Eric D. Schaeffer. For the independent filmmaker, see Eric Schaeffer.

Eric Schaefer (born 1959) is a professor and film historian. He is an associate professor at Emerson College and interim chair of the visual and media arts department. ^[1]

He has a B.A. from Webster University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin.

He is best known for his book on exploitation filmmaking, Bold! Daring! Shocking! True: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959, published by Duke University Press in 1999. ^[2] He has been described as "the go-to academic source on the genre of exploitation films." ^[3]

He is a member of the Northeast Historic Film board of advisors ^[4] and a member of the editorial board of the journal The Moving Image. ^[5]

Selected works

• Bold! Daring! Shocking! True": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 (1999) - Duke University Press.
• "Plain Brown Wrapper: Adult Films for the Home Market, 1930-1970", In the Absence of Films: Towards a New Historiographic Practice, Eric Smoodin and Jon Lewis, editors, Duke University Press.
• "Gauging a Revolution: 16mm Film and the Rise of the Pornographic Feature". Cinema Journal - 41, Number 3, Spring 2002, pp. 3–26.
• "Dirty Little Secrets: Scholars, Archivists, and Dirty Movies". The Moving Image - Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 2005, pp. 79–105

References

1. Maria Chutchian (September 11, 2008). "Three departments to receive new leadership". The Berkeley Beacon. Archived from the original on October 9, 2009.
2. googlebooks.com
3. "Emerson College". Archived from the original on September 17, 2006. Retrieved March 28, 2010.
4. "Northeast Historic Film website". Archived from the original on May 13, 2008. Retrieved March 28, 2010.
5. The Moving Image, editorial board