Title:
Return to the land of the head hunters : Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwạkạ'wakw, and the making of modern cinema
Publication Date:
2014
Publication Information:
Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Physical Description:
xxvii, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 27 cm.
ISBN:
9780295993447
General Note:
"Bill Holm Center for the study of Northwest coast art, Burke Museum, Seattle, in association with University of Washington Press."
Contents:
Introduction. Edward Curtis meets the Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw : cultural encounter and Indigenous agency : In the land of the head hunters / Aaron Glass and Brad Evans -- Part One. 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 -- Part Two. 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 (T̓łak̲wagila̲'og̲wa) ; 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. -- Part Three. 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. (Wax̲a̲widi) ; Cultural interpretation / Dave Hunsaker ; The Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw business of showing : tradition meets modernity on the silver screen and the world stage / Aaron Glass -- Afterword / Paul Chaat Smith -- Appendix 1. Promotional images for In the land of the head hunters -- Appendix 2. The Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw cast and crew of In the land of the head hunters -- Appendix 3. Curtis film props in the collection of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture -- Appendix 4. Title cards from the 2008 reconstruction of In the land of the head hunters.
Personal Subject:
Language:
English
