{{short description|Professor and film historian}} {{About|the film historian/professor|the theater director|Eric D. Schaeffer|the independent filmmaker|Eric Schaeffer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} '''Eric Schaefer''' (born 1959) is a film historian. He is Professor Emeritus of visual and media arts at Emerson College.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://media.www.berkeleybeacon.com/media/storage/paper169/news/2008/09/11/News/Three.Departments.To.Receive.New.Leadership-3425226.shtml |title = Three departments to receive new leadership |work = The Berkeley Beacon |date = September 11, 2008 |author = Maria Chutchian |url-status = dead |archiveurl = 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 |archivedate = 2009-10-09 }}</ref>
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.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CSBZqe0zPaMC&dq=eric+schaefer&pg=PR9 googlebooks.com]</ref> He has been described as "the go-to academic source on the genre of exploitation films."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.emerson.edu/emersontoday/index.cfm?action=3&articleID=2284&editionID=226 |title=Emerson College |access-date=2010-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060917144557/http://www.emerson.edu/emersontoday/index.cfm?action=3&articleID=2284&editionID=226 |archive-date=2006-09-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
He is a member of the Northeast Historic Film board of advisors<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oldfilm.org/mir_eric_schaefer |title=Northeast Historic Film website |access-date=2010-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513135939/http://www.oldfilm.org/mir_eric_schaefer |archive-date=2008-05-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and a member of the editorial board of the journal ''The Moving Image.''<ref>[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_moving_image/info/9.1.editorial.html ''The Moving Image'', editorial board]</ref>
==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
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