Return to the land of the head hunters : Edward S. Curtis, the Kwaka'wakw, and the making of modern cinema / edited by Brad Evans and Aaron Glass.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Evans, Brad, 1968- (Editor)
Glass, Aaron, editor of compilation
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Series:Native art of the Pacific Northwest: a Bill Holm Center series
Subjects:
Motion pictures in ethnology.
Ethnographic films.
Curtis, Edward S., > 1868-1952.
Kwakiutl people.
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.
Photography in ethnology.
Indigenous films.
Cinematography.
Kwakiutl Indians.
Kwakiutl.
Ethnologischer Film.
Ethnologische Photographie.
Physical Description:xxvii, 420 pages ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction. Edward Curtis meets the Kwakwakawakw: Cultural Encounter and indigenous Agency in the Land of the Head Hunters / aron Glass and Brad Evans
  • Mediating Indians/Complicating Curtis. Edward Curtis and In the Land of the Head Hunters: Four Contexts / Mick Gidley
  • Images of Time: Portraiture in The North American Indian / Shamoon Zamir
  • Indian Landscapes: Pauline Johnson and Edward Curtis / Kate Flint
  • A Chamber of Echoing Songs: Edward Curtis as a Musical Ethnographer / Ira Jacknis
  • Photo Essay 1: "At the Kitchen Table with Edward Curtis" / Jeff Thomas
  • Head Hunters across Two Centuries. Consuming the Head Hunters: A Century of Film Reception / Aaron Glass and Brad Evans
  • Unmasking the Documentary: Notes on the Anxiety of Edward Curtis / Colin Browne
  • Indian Movies and the Vernacular of Modernism / Brad Evans
  • Musical Intertextuality in Indigenous Film: Making and Remaking In the Land of the Head Hunters / Klisala Harrison
  • Reflections on Working with Edward Curtis / Barbara Cranmer
  • Photo Essay 2: "Old Images/New Views: Indigenous Perspectives on Edward Curtis" / Dr. E. Richard Atleo, Pam Brown, Marie Clements, Karrmen Crey, Mique'l Icesis Dangeli, Andy Everson, Linc Kesler, David Neel, Evelyn Vanderhoop, and William Wasden Jr.
  • Reimagining Curtis Today. In the Land of the Head Hunters: Reconstruction, not Restoration / Jere Guldin
  • In the Land of the Head Hunters and the History of Silent Film Music / David Gilbert
  • Performing Braham, Interpreting Curtis: A Conversation on Conducting / Neal Stulberg, Owen Underhill, Timothy Long, and Laura Ortman
  • "What the Creator Gave to Us": An Interview with William Wasden Jr.
  • Cultural interpretation / Dave Hunsaker
  • The Kwakwakawakw Business of Showing: Tradition Meets Modernity on the Silver Screen and the World's Stage / Aaron Glass.