Horror Dogs

Man's Best Friend as Movie Monster

Brian Patrick Duggan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2024
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 canines. Stretching far 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 WWII'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. Beware of 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
delete delete Tail Piece: The Three-Headed Dog at Hell's Gate
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
delete delete Tail Piece: Plague Hounds
10. Frankenstein Dogs
delete delete Tail Piece: Robot Dogs
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
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
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