Return to the Land of the Head Hunters - Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Washington Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center Series
Release date:	February 2020
Editors:	'Brad Evans • Aaron Glass
Foreword by:	Bill Holm
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	392
ISBN-13:	978-0-295-74695-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-295-74695-5
Barcode:	9780295746951

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