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Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema

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Description for Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema Hardcover. Influential but often neglected in historical accounts, this spectacular melodrama was an intercultural product of Curtis' encounter and collaboration with the Kwakwaka'wakw of British Columbia. This book offers Kwakwaka'wakw perspectives on the film, and accounts of its production and subsequent circulation. Editor(s): Evans, Brad; Glass, Aaron. Series: Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center. Num Pages: 447 pages, 113 illus., 16 in color. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 265 x 192 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1054.

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 Kwakwa̱ka̱’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, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
Series
Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295993447
SKU
V9780295993447
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About Brad
Brad Evans is associate professor of English at Rutgers University. Aaron Glass is associate professor of anthropology at the Bard Graduate Center.

Reviews for Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema
"Richly illustrated, multivocal, and altogether remarkable. . . . This book does us all a service by ushering Curtis’s In the Land of the Head Hunters into the 21st century."
American Ethnologist
"Offers a stunning range of perspectives and visual materials drawing from the original production to the present. . . . Ambitious not only in its scope ... Read more

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