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

by Brad Evans

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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 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0295746955

ISBN13:9780295746951

Release Date:February 2020

Publisher:University of Washington Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:1.70 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.6" x 9.8"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Cultural First Nations Native American Studies Performing Arts Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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