Return to the Land of the Head Hunters : Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0295746955
ISBN-13
9780295746951
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Imprint
University of Washington Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 28th, 2020
Print length
392 Pages
Weight
796 grams
Dimensions
16.80 x 24.70 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
Film theory & criticismIndigenous peoplesSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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Photographer Edward Curtis's 1914 orchestrally scored melodrama In the Land of the Head Hunters was one of the first US films to feature an Indigenous cast. This landmark of early silent cinema was an intercultural product of Curtis's collaboration with the Kwakwa_ka_'wakw of British Columbia—meant, like Curtis's photographs, to document a supposedly vanishing race. But as this collection shows, the epic film is not simply an artifact of colonialist nostalgia. In recognition of the film's centennial, and the release of a restored version, Return to the Land of the Head Hunters brings together leading anthropologists, Native American authorities, artists, musicians, literary scholars, and film historians to reassess the film and its legacy. The volume offers unique Kwakwa_ka_'wakw perspectives on the film, accounts of its production and subsequent circulation, and evaluations of its depictions of cultural practice. Resituated within film history and informed by a legacy of Kwakwa_ka_'wakw participation and response, the movie offers dynamic evidence of ongoing cultural survival and transformation under shared conditions of modernity.
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