Marihuana, Motherhood & Madness: Three Screenplays from the Exploitation Cinema of Dwain Esper

by Bret Wood and Dwain Esper

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810833751
• ISBN13: 9780810833753
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"