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Professor and film historian 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.

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. He has been described as "the go-to academic source on the genre of exploitation films."

He is a member of the Northeast Historic Film board of advisors and a member of the editorial board of the journal The Moving Image.

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 2009-10-09.
  2. googlebooks.com
  3. "Emerson College". Archived from the original on 2006-09-17. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
  4. "Northeast Historic Film website". Archived from the original on 2008-05-13. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
  5. The Moving Image, editorial board


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