Cinematic Canines: Dogs and Their Work in the Fiction Film

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Wonder Dogs 1 ADRIENNE L. McLEAN Part One Stars and Featured Players 1 Answering a Growl: Roscoe Arbuckle’s Talented Canine Co-star, Luke 33 JOANNA E. RAPF 2 The Dogs Who Saved Hollywood: Strongheart and Rin Tin Tin 54 KATHRYN FULLER-SEELEY AND JEREMY GROSKOPF 3 Asta the Screwball Dog: Hollywood’s Canine Sidekick 78 SARA ROSS AND JAMES CASTONGUAY 4 Promoting Lassie: The Animal Star and Constructions of “Ideal” American Heroism 104 KELLY WOLF Part Two Character and Supporting Actors 5 Dogs at War: Military Dogs in Film 123 AARON SKABELUND 6 Loaded Dogs: Dogs, Domesticity, and “the Wild” in Australian Cinema 143 JANE O’SULLIVAN vii viii • Contents 7 Bullies and Curs: Overlords and Underdogs in South African Cinema 158 GIULIANA LUND 8 Things from Another World: Dogs, Aliens, and Antarctic Cinema 181 ELIZABETH LEANE AND GUINEVERE NARRAWAY Part Three Stock, Bits, and Extras 9 Hitchcock’s Canine Uncanny 199 MURRAY POMERANCE 10 The Dog at the Side of the Shot: Incongruous Dog (Canis familiaris) Behavior in Film 219 ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ Afterword: Dogs at the Digital Divide 235 ADRIENNE L. McLEAN Works Cited 251 Notes on Contributors 261 Index 265 ...