Eric Schaefer Explained

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. News: Three departments to receive new leadership . The Berkeley Beacon . September 11, 2008 . Maria Chutchian . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091009110828/http://media.www.berkeleybeacon.com/media/storage/paper169/news/2008/09/11/News/Three.Departments.To.Receive.New.Leadership-3425226.shtml . 2009-10-09.
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=CSBZqe0zPaMC&dq=eric+schaefer&pg=PR9 googlebooks.com
3. Web site: Emerson College . 2010-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060917144557/http://www.emerson.edu/emersontoday/index.cfm?action=3&articleID=2284&editionID=226 . 2006-09-17 . dead .
4. Web site: Northeast Historic Film website . 2010-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080513135939/http://www.oldfilm.org/mir_eric_schaefer . 2008-05-13 . dead .
5. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_moving_image/info/9.1.editorial.html The Moving Image, editorial board