Return to the Land of the Head Hunters
Return to the Land of the Head Hunters 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. But…
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Return to the Land of the Head Hunters
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. But as this collection shows, the epic film is not simply an artifact of colonialist nostalgia.In recognition of the film's centennial, and the release of a restored version, Return to the Land of the Head Hunters brings together leading anthropologists, Native American authorities, artists, musicians, literary scholars, and film historians to reassess the film and its legacy. 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.
The volume offers unique Kwakwa̱ka̱'wakw perspectives on the film, accounts of its production and
Head Hunters
Return to the Centre of the Earth
To the End of the land
Hunters Of The Dead
Return to the Jungle
Return to the Sea