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Marihuana, Motherhood & Madness: Three Screenplays from the Exploitation Cinema of Dwain Esper Hardcover - 1998
by Esper, Dwain/ Wood, Bret (Editor)/ Wood, Bret/ Slide, Anthony
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- Title Marihuana, Motherhood & Madness: Three Screenplays from the Exploitation Cinema of Dwain Esper
- Author Esper, Dwain/ Wood, Bret (Editor)/ Wood, Bret/ Slide, Anthony
- Binding Hardcover
- Condition New
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scarecrow Pr, Lanham, MD
- Date 1998
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # __0810833751
- ISBN 9780810833753 / 0810833751
- Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 8.78 x 5.8 x 0.91 in (22.30 x 14.73 x 2.31 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Motion picture plays
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97031262
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.437
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From the rear cover
Marihuana, Motherhood & Madness features the complete shooting scripts of three Depression-era films directed by independent filmmaker Dwain Esper, prominent in the exploitation film industry for his daring, low-budget movies about taboo issues like sex, drugs, and insanity. The screenplays included are Modern Motherhood (1934), a social commentary on liberal marriages, sexualy transmitted disease, and abortion; Maniac (1934), a treatise on mental illness delivered in a B-grade horror-movie format; and Marihuana: Weed with Roots in Hell (1936), a "drug scare" film in which a few puffs set an innocent high-school girl on a downward spiral to become a heroin-addicted, drug-pushing kidnapper.