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Subjects:

Dogs in motion pictures.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

McLean, Adrienne L., editor of compilation.

ISBN:

9780813563565 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813563569 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813563558 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813563550 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813563572 (e-book)

OCLC:

852681988