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Marihuana, motherhood & madness : three screenplays from the exploitation cinema of Dwain Esper
- Title
- Marihuana, motherhood & madness : three screenplays from the exploitation cinema of Dwain Esper / edited by Bret Wood ; Anthony Slide, consulting editor.
- Author
- Esper, Dwain.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1997.A1 E86 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxii, 248 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Filmography: p. [223]-226.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Modern motherhood -- Maniac -- Marihuana.
- ISBN
- 0810833751 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97031262
- OCLC
- 37553546
- ocm37553546
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries