Eric J Schaefer

"Bold! Daring! Shocking! True: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959

"Bold! Daring! Shocking! True: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959

The Art of the B Movie Poster

Exploding off the page with over 1,000 of the best examples of exploitation, grindhouse, and pulp film poster design comes The Art of the B Movie Poster, a collection of incredible posters from low-budget films from the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. Once relegated to the underground and midnight movie c...

Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics

Bad Girls Go to Hell. Cannibal Holocaust. Eve and the Handyman. Examining film culture’s ongoing fascination with the low, bad, and sleazy faces of cinema, Sleaze Artists brings together film scholars with a shared interest in the questions posed by disreputable movies and suspect cinema. They explo...

American Cinema of the 1960s: Themes and Variations (Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema)

The profound cultural and political changes of the 1960s brought the United States closer to social revolution than at any other time in the twentieth century. The country fragmented as various challenges to state power were met with increasing and violent resistance. The Cold War heated up and ...

Bold! Daring! Shocking! True: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959

Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves “in trouble” comprise the population of exploitation films. In the first full-scale history of these low-budget movies of decades past, Eric Schaefer reveals how this pioneering f...