Eric Schaefer

{{short description|Professor and film historian}}

{{About|the film historian/professor|the theater director|Eric D. Schaeffer|the independent filmmaker|Eric Schaeffer}}

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. {{cite news

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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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=CSBZqe0zPaMC&dq=eric+schaefer&pg=PR9 googlebooks.com] He has been described as "the go-to academic source on the genre of exploitation films."{{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 }}

He is a member of the Northeast Historic Film board of advisors{{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 }} and a member of the editorial board of the journal The Moving Image.[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_moving_image/info/9.1.editorial.html The Moving Image, editorial board]