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1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Dogs in motion pictures.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
McLean, Adrienne L., editor of compilation.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cinematic canines : dogs and their work in the fiction film. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014] 9780813563565 (DLC)10848633 |
| ISBN |
9780813563565 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780813563558 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780813563572 (electronic bk.) |
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