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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 Bret Wood


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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.

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  • Title Marihuana, Motherhood & Madness: Three Screenplays from the Exploitation Cinema of Dwain Esper
  • Author Bret Wood
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD
  • Date 1998-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • 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

About the author

Bret Wood is a freelance writer who has published articles in Film Comment and Filmfax. He currently resides in New York.
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Hardback. New. Marihuana, Motherhood & Madness features the complete shooting scripts of three Depression-era films directed by independent filmmaker Dwain Esper. A topic of growing interest among cinema aficionados and scholars, the lowbrow exploitation genre was the means by which small-scale entrepreneurs could compete with the major studios. Exploitation films addressed such controversial topics as drug use, prostitution, abortion, child marriage, and even bestiality—topics the major studios were forbidden to address by the Production Code Administration—salaciously exploiting the profitability of such taboo issues, while justifying their prurience by posing as educational tracts. Dwain Esper (1894-1982) was the exploitation industry's most audacious figure. Without any formal training in filmmaking, he operated his own film lab and studio (which he acquired when a debtor defaulted on a loan) and in 1932 began tapping into Depression America's… Read More
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