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 filmhistorian. He is Professor Emeritus of visual and media arts at Emerson College.
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
