{"product_id":"horror-dogs-mans-best-friend-as-movie-monster-9781476685878","title":"Horror Dogs: Man's Best Friend as Movie Monster","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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' \u003ci\u003eHound of the Baskervilles\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003e\"Cave Canem\u003c\/i\u003e (Beware the Dog)\"--or as one seminal film warned, \"They're not pets anymore.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11875352\"\u003eBrian Patrick Duggan\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.92h x 6.93w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476685878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1476685878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER004130\"\u003eFilm | Genres | Horror\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Patrick Duggan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eSaluki: The Desert Hound and the English Travelers Who Brought It to the West\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous articles on canine history which have been published in \u003ci\u003eAKC Family Dog, AKC Gazette, Greasy Grass: The Journal of the Custer Battlefield Historical \u0026amp; Museum Association\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eResearch Review: The Journal of the Little Big Horn Associates\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. He is a retired university technology educator, an active American Kennel Club judge, and the editor for McFarland's \u003ci\u003eDogs in Our World\u003c\/i\u003e series.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44486442352877,"sku":"9781476685878","price":83.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_32e35221-887e-4bc0-8bb3-f72b0a30167b.jpg?v=1700819015","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/horror-dogs-mans-best-friend-as-movie-monster-9781476685878","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}