Eric Schaefer (born 1959) is a

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

and

film A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

. He is an associate professor at

Emerson College Emerson College is a private college in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It also maintains campuses in Los Angeles and Well, Limburg, Netherlands (Kasteel Well). Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of Public Speaking, o ...

and interim chair of the visual and media arts department. He has a B.A. from

Webster University Webster University is a private university with its main campus in Webster Groves, Missouri, United States. It has multiple branch locations across the United States and countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa. The university has an alumni net ...

, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the

University of Texas, Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 students as of fall 20 ...

. He is best known for his book on

exploitation film An exploitation film is a film that seeks commercial success by capitalizing on current trends, niche genres, or sensational content. Exploitation films often feature themes such as suggestive or explicit sex, sensational violence, drug use, nudi ...

making, ''Bold! Daring! Shocking! True: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959'', published by

Duke University Press Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 ...

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.''''The Moving Image'', editorial board
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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 The ''Journal of Cinema and Media Studies'' (formerly ''Cinema Journal'' and ''The Journal of the Society of Cinematologists'') is the official academic journal of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (formerly the Society for Cinema Studies ...

'' - 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

Emerson College faculty Webster University alumni Living people 1959 births {{US-historian-stub