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Marihuana, Motherhood & Madness: Three Screenplays from the Exploitation Cinema
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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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Scarecrow Pr, 1998. Hardcover. New. 248 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.00 inches.
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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.

About the author

Bret Wood is a freelance writer who has published articles in Film Comment and Filmfax. He currently resides in New York.