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

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, New Jersey : : Rutgers University Press,, [2014]
2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 pages) :; illustrations
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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.