
Visual & Media Arts Faculty
Eric SchaeferInterim Chair and Associate Professor (1992) B.A., Webster University; M.A., University of Texas, Austin; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin Dr. Schaefer is a film and media historian who specializes in exploitation film and other marginalized cinemas. His essays have been published in Cinema Journal, Film Quarterly, Film History, and anthologies such as Looking Past the Screen, Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics, and American Cinema of the 1960s. He is the author of "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 now in its third printing. He is working on Massacre of Pleasure: A History of Sexploitation Films, 1960-1979 and an anthology on media and the sexual revolution. Dr. Schaefer is active in the area of film preservation as a member of the advisory board of Northeast Historic Film and the editorial board of The Moving Image, the journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. He has twice served on the Board of Directors of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. |


