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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With obvious affection for their subjects, the authors of the fascinating essays in
Cinematic Canines provide a trove of information on famous dogs in the movies and how they have been handled and mishandled by the humans behind the camera."
-- Stephen Prince * author of Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality *
"A book for Fido’s film fans and scholars of animals in motion pictures alike,
Cinematic Canines gathers case studies that together make a lively case for considering nonhuman life as essential to media history." -- Susan McHugh * author of Animal Stories *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Wonder Dogs Adrienne L. McLean Part One. Stars and Featured Players 1. Answering a Growl: Roscoe Arbuckle’s Talented Canine Co-Star, Luke Joanna E. Rapf 2. The Dogs Who Saved Hollywood: Strongheart and Rin Tin Tin Kathryn Fuller-Seeley and Jeremy Groskopf 3. Asta the Screwball Dog: Hollywood’s Canine Sidekick Sara Ross and James Castonguay 4. Promoting Lassie: The Animal Star and Constructions of “Ideal” American Heroism Kelly Wolf Part Two. Character and Supporting Actors 5. Dogs at War: Military Dogs in Film Aaron Skabelund 6. Loaded Dogs: Dogs, Domesticity, and “the Wild” in Australian Cinema Jane O’Sullivan 7. Bullies and Curs: Overlords and Underdogs in South African Cinema Giuliana Lund 8. Things from Another World: Dogs, Aliens, and Antarctic Cinema Elizabeth Leane and Guinevere Narraway Part Three Stock, Bits, and Extras 9. Hitchcock’s Canine Uncanny Murray Pomerance 10. The Dog at the Side of the Shot: Incongruous Dog (Canisfamiliaris) Behavior in Film Alexandra Horowitz Afterword: Dogs at the Digital Divide Adrienne L. McLean Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index
