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

by Brad Evans

Book Overview

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