Eric Schaefer (born 1959) is a film historian. He is Professor Emeritus of visual and media arts at Emerson College.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 advisors4 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
References
- Maria Chutchian (September 11, 2008). "Three departments to receive new leadership". The Berkeley Beacon. Archived from the original on October 9, 2009.
- googlebooks.com
- "Emerson College". Archived from the original on September 17, 2006. Retrieved March 28, 2010.
- "Northeast Historic Film website". Archived from the original on May 13, 2008. Retrieved March 28, 2010.
- The Moving Image, editorial board