Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations: Griffiths, Alison
In: Film History: An International Journal, 25, 2013, 1-2, p. 95-109
published:
Indiana University Press
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 95-109
ISSN: 1553-3905
0892-2160
DOI: 10.2979/filmhistory.25.1-2.95
published in: Film History: An International Journal
Language: English
Collection: sid-55-col-jstorfilm
sid-55-col-jstoras5
JSTOR Film and Performing Arts
JSTOR Arts & Sciences V Archive
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<label>ABSTRACT</label> <p>This essay explores historical, textual, and discursive questions surrounding the overlooked expedition film. Using Carl Lumholtz's 1920 expedition film<italic>Borneo: In the Land of the Head-Hunters</italic>as a case study, issues of authorship, sponsorship, stylistic tropes (such as the long take), as well as the expedition film's conventionalization in the 1920s, are taken up and discussed.</p>