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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813563572 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cinematic canines : dogs and their work in the fiction film.DDC classification:
  • 791.43/662 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.A5 C555 2014eb
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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