Becoming Documentary: Edward Curtis's In the Land of the Headhunters and the Politics of Archival Reconstruction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pauline Wakeham
Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, 2006, pp. 293-309
Description
Compares the original film from 1914 to the restored 1973 version arguing that the reconstruction still attempts to make a manipulate melodrama into an ethnographic piece.