Eric Schaefer, Ph.D., (born 1959) is a

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and

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. 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 Webster University is a private university with its main campus in Webster Groves, Missouri. It has multiple branch locations across the United States and countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa. It offers undergraduate and graduate program ...

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

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. He is best known for his book on

exploitation film An exploitation film is a film that tries to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content. Exploitation films are generally low-quality "B movies", though some set trends, attract critical attention, become hi ...

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

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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". ''

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- 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