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 Canines take a close look at Hollywood films and beyond in order to show that the popularity of dogs on the screen cannot be separated from their increasing presence in our lives over the past century.
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 Canines take a close look at Hollywood films and beyond in order to show that the popularity of dogs on the screen cannot be separated from their increasing presence in our lives over the past century.
ADRIENNE L. MCLEAN is a professor of film studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is the author or editor of many books, including Glamour in a Golden Age: Movie Stars of the 1930s (Rutgers University Press 2010), Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body and Narrative Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2008), and Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom (Rutgers University Press, 2004).
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Acknowledgments 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
Acknowledgments 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
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