Horror Dogs

Man's Best Friend as Movie Monster

Brian Patrick Duggan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

274 Seiten

2023
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8587-8 (ISBN)

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How did beloved movie dogs become man-killers like Cujo and his cinematic pack-mates? For the first time, here is the fascinating history of canines in horror movies and why our best friends were (and are still) painted as malevolent. Stretching back into Classical mythology, treacherous hounds are found only sporadically in art and literature until the appearance of cinema's first horror dog, Sherlock Holmes' Hound of the Baskervilles. The story intensifies through World War II's K-9 Corps to the 1970s animal horror films, which broke social taboos about the "good dog" on screen and deliberately vilified certain breeds--sometimes even fluffy lapdogs.

With behind-the-scenes insights from writers, directors, actors, and dog trainers, here are the flickering hounds of silent films through talkies and Technicolor, to the latest computer-generated brutes--the supernatural, rabid, laboratory-made, alien, feral, and trained killers. "Cave Canem (Beware the Dog)"--or as one seminal film warned, "They're not pets anymore."

Brian Patrick Duggan is a canine historian and author of several books and numerous articles about dogs in history. He is a retired university technology educator and an American Kennel Club judge.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Jon Towlson

Introduction: Beware the Dog!

Note to the Reader

Part I: Genesis

1. Convergent Beginnings

2. The Silent Hounds

3. Horrible Antecedents: Myth, Art, and Literature

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4. Zaroff and Baskerville: The Hound Gets Sound

5. Good Dog Decades and Their Creeping Demise

6. The Door Swings Open Wide

7. The Dawn of Horror Dogs

Intermission: What We Fear

Part II: Taxonomy: A Field Guide to Horror Dogs

8. The Supernatural

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9. Cujo

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10. Frankenstein Dogs

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11. Canine Aliens

12. Insurrection

13. Trained to Kill

Conclusion: Sniffing Ahead

Epilogue

Glossary

Appendix: Horror Dog Productions by Year, Country, and Breed

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	Dogs in Our World
Zusatzinfo	55 photos, glossary, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
ISBN-10	1-4766-8587-8 / 1476685878
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8587-8 / 9781476685878
Zustand	Neuware