Description
Product ID: | 9780295993447 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center Series |
Title: | Return to the Land of the Head Hunters |
Subtitle: | Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema |
Authors: | Author: Aaron Glass, Brad Evans |
Page Count: | 392 |
Subjects: | Film history, theory or criticism, Film theory & criticism, Indigenous peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Indigenous peoples, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
Description: | 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | University of Washington Press |
Publisher Name: | University of Washington Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-12-10 |