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Call No: 738.66 CIN
Author: McLean, Adrienne L. (ed.)
Place: New Brunswick, N.J.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: x, 272 p. ; 24 cm ;
Subject: DOGS IN MOTION PICTURES; LASSIE COME HOME (US, Fred M. Willcox, 1943); BABE (AT, Chris Noonan, 1995); BABE: PIG IN THE CITY (AT, George Miller, 1998); THING, THE (US, John Carpenter, 1982); HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; RED DOG (AT, Kriv Stenders, 2011); [EIGHT] 8 BELOW (US, Frank Marshall, 2006); SOUTH AFRICA; ANTARCTICA
Summary: 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. The representation and visualization of dogs in cinema, as of other animals, has influenced our understanding of what dogs “should” do and be, for us and with us. Adrienne L. McLean expertly shepherds these original essays into a coherent look at “real” dogs in live-action narrative films, from the stars and featured players to the character and supporting actors to those pooches that assumed bit parts or performed as extras. Who were those dogs, how were they trained, what were they made to do, how did they participate as characters in a fictional universe? These are a just a few of the many questions that she and the outstanding group of scholars in this book have addressed. Often dogs are anthropomorphized in movies in ways that enable them to reason, sympathize, understand and even talk; and our shaping of dogs into furry humans has had profound effects on the lives of dogs off the screen. Certain breeds of dog have risen in popularity following their appearance in commercial film, often to the detriment of the dogs themselves, who rarely correspond to their idealized screen versions. In essence, the contributors in Cinematic Canines help us think about and understand the meanings of the many canines that appear in the movies and, in turn, we want to know more about those dogs due in no small part to the power of the movies themselves. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780813563558
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Wonder Dogs / Adrienne L. McLean -- 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 -- 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 -- Hitchcock’s Canine Uncanny / Murray Pomerance -- 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

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: LASSIE (UK/IE/FR/US, Charles Sturridge, 2005)

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PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: LASSIE (US, Daniel Petrie, 1994)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: LASSIE COME HOME (US, Fred M. Willcox, 1943)

Call No: DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: LASSIE COME HOME [LASSIE - EINE ABENTEUERLICHE REISE] (G, Hanno Olderdissen, 2020)

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PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: LASSIE, MY LASSIE (US, director?, 1977)

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PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: LASSIE: THE NEW BEGINNING (US, Don Chaffey, 1979)

Call No: LP The Magic of Lassie
Author: Kostal, Irwin; Sherman, Richard M.; Sherman, Robert B.
Source: US
Place: Australia
Publisher: 7 Records
PubDate: 1978
PhysDes: 1 sound disc (25 min.) : [33 1/3] rpm, stereo. ; 12 in
Subject: MAGIC OF LASSIE, THE (US, Don Chaffey, 1978)
Notes: Original motion picture soundtrack; Durations on labels; notes on container
Contents: -- Side 1 -- when you're loved (3:22) / Debby Boone -- nobody's property (2:55) / Mike Curb Congregation -- travellin' music (2:24) / Mickey Rooney -- there'll be other friday nights (2:27) / Debby Boone -- a rose is not a rose (2:40) / Pat boone -- Side 2 -- banjo song (2:15) / Mike Curb Congregation -- that hometown feeling (2:30) / James Stewart -- brass rings and daydreams (2:30) / Debby Boone -- thanksgiving prayer (1:07) / James Stweart -- I can't say goodbye (2:28) / Mike Curb Congregation --
Performer: Boone, Debby; Boone, Pat; Kostal, Irwin; Mike Curb Congregation; Rooney, Mickey; Stewart, James
Music Type: Motion Picture Music
Publisher Number: MLF 261

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: MAGIC OF LASSIE, THE (US, Don Chaffey, 1978)