Research Catalog

Title

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.

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Evans, Brad, 1968-
• Glass, Aaron

Description

xxvii, 420 pages; 26 cm

Series Statement

Native art of the Pacific Northwest

Uniform Title

Native art of the Pacific Northwest.

Subject

• Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
• Motion pictures in ethnology
• Ethnographic films
• Kwakiutl Indians
• Indigenous peoples in motion pictures
• Photography in ethnology
• Indigenous films
• Cinematography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFF 15-363

ISBN

• 9780295993447 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 0295993448 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013043531

OCLC

862787946

Title

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.

Publisher

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Native art of the Pacific Northwest

Native art of the Pacific Northwest.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Evans, Brad, 1968- editor.

Glass, Aaron, editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 15-363