Syllabus

American Dreams and Cultural Capital:
The Rise of Hollywood

Suggestions for Further Study

Motion Pictures as an Industry

  Thomas Edison

  The Move to Hollywood

  D.W. Griffith

   The Birth of a Nation (1915)

The Western

  Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show

  The Great Train Robbery (1903)

  Broncho Billy Anderson

  William S. Hart

  Tom Mix

  The Covered Wagon (1923)