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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Shooting cowboys and Indians: Silent western films, American culture, and the birth of Hollywood Abstract: This study revises conventional wisdom about the emergence of motion pictures, the establishment of Los Angeles as the center of American filmmaking, and the creation of popular screen images of heroic white men that so dominated American popular culture for much of the twentieth century. Historians have heretofore correctly looked to the silent era between 1894 and 1927 for the explanation of these developments but, in doing so, they have focused on the most commercially successful and technically and artistically innovative motion-picture firms of the first half of this period--Edison Manufacturing, Biograph Company, and Vitagraph Company. These businesses, however, were neither the leaders in the production of cowboy and Man pictures that popularized the stereotypical western ethnic and gender images nor the pioneers. in moving film operations permanently to the West. Using a wide array of primary source materials, my study demonstrates that these distinctions belong to Selig Polyscope Company, Essanay Manufacturing, and New York Motion Picture. |
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