Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema (Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center Series) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0295993448 ISBN 13: 9780295993447

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2013

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Críticas:

This richly illustrated, multivocal, and altogether remarkable volume is the result of many years' work on the part of the editors; the U'mista Cultural Centre and the Gwa'wina Dancers of Alert Bay, British Columbia; and many scholars and cultural experts...[the] book does us all a service by ushering Curtis's In the Land of the Head Hunters into the 21st century. -- Richard Handler * American Ethnologist * An important work, dealing with the history of the Kwakwaka'wakw as well as the history of cinema . . . [with] essays by anthropologists, Native American authorities, artists, musicians, literary scholars, and film historians. The book includes Kwakwaka'wakw perspectives on the film, as well as information about how it was made and distributed. -- Dave Obee * Times Colonist * The benefit of hindsight tempts us to dismiss Curtis's naivete or his fetishization of authenticity. But the many voices brought together here - art historians both native and non-native, activists, anthropologists, even a renowned modern Kwakwaka'wakw documentary filmmaker - reach for a more nuanced critical appreciation of the film's legacy. . . . Glass, Evans, and their contributors show Curtis and his native collaborators have left something that can be bent to new uses as a bulwark against cultural erasure. -- Christopher F. Roth * Reed Magazine *

Reseña del editor:

The first silent feature film with an "all Indian" cast and a surviving original orchestral score, Edward Curtis's 1914 In the Land of the Head Hunters was a landmark of early cinema. Influential but often neglected in historical accounts, this spectacular melodrama was an intercultural product of Curtis's encounter and collaboration with the Kwakwaka'wakw of British Columbia. In recognition of the film's centennial, and alongside 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. The volume offers unique Kwakwaka'wakw perspectives on the film, accounts of its production and subsequent circulation, and evaluations of its depictions of cultural practice.Like his photographs, Curtis's motion picture was meant to document a supposedly vanishing race. But as this collection shows, the film is not simply an artifact of colonialist nostalgia. Resituated within film history and informed by a legacy of Kwakwaka'wakw participation and response, the movie offers dynamic evidence of ongoing cultural survival and transformation under shared conditions of modernity. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPuS39iOsJQ&feature=c4-overview&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw

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• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0295993448
• ISBN 13: 9780295993447
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392
• Herausgeber: Evans Brad, Glass Aaron