Cinematic canines : dogs and their work in the fiction film / edited by Adrienne L. McLean.

Dogs have been part of motion pictures since the movies began. They have been featured onscreen in various capacities, from any number of "man's best friends" (Rin Tin Tin, Asta, Toto, Lassie, Benji, Uggie, and many, many more) to the psychotic Cujo. The contributors to Cinematic Cani...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: McLean, Adrienne L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Wonder dogs / Adrienne L. McLean
  • pt. 1. Stars and featured players
  • Answering a growl: Roscoe Arbuckle's talented canine co-star, Luke / Joanna E. Rapf
  • The dogs who saved Hollywood: Strongheart and Rin Tin Tin / Kathryn Fuller-Seeley and Jeremy Groskopf
  • Asta the screwball dog: Hollywood's canine sidekick / Sara Ross and James Castonguay
  • Promoting Lassie: the animal star and constructions of "ideal" American heroism / Kelly Wolf
  • pt. 2. Character and supporting actors
  • Dogs at war: military dogs in film / Aaron Skabelund
  • Loaded dogs: dogs, domesticity, and "the wild" in Australian cinema / Jane O'Sullivan
  • Bullies and curs: overlords and underdogs in South African Cinema / Giuliana Lund
  • Things from another world: dogs, aliens, and antarctic cinema / Elizabeth Leane and Guinevere Narraway
  • pt. 3. Stock, bits, and extras
  • Hitchcock's canine uncanny / Murray Pomerance
  • The dog at the side of the shot: incongruous dog (Canis familiaris) behavior in film / Alexandra Horowitz
  • Afterword: Dogs at the digital divide / Adrienne L. McLean.