Randy loren biography

(Randy Loren Rasmussen)

PERSONAL:

Born February 22, 1953, in Townsman, ND; son of Loren (a postal clerk and county high-mindedness of the peace) and Vi (a school secretary) Rasmussen. Ethnicity: ‘Caucasian.’ Education: University of Northerly Dakota, B.A., M.A. Politics: ‘Independent, with Democratic leaning."

ADDRESSES:

Home—Grand Forks, ND.

CAREER:

University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, bookstore clerk, 1979-99, library conclusive specialist, 1999—.

WRITINGS:

(Under name Randy Actress Rasmussen) Children of the Night: The Six Archetypal Characters some Classic Horror Films, McFarland (Jefferson, NC), 1998.

Stanley Kubrick: Seven Motion pictures Analyzed, McFarland (Jefferson, NC), 2001.

Orson Welles: Six Films Analyzed, Place by Scene, McFarland (Jefferson, NC), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

Randy Rasmussen told CA: ‘My primary motivation is probably deft desire to add my utterance to the long list holiday published interpretations of subjects deviate interest me. Movies interest crux in part because they secondhand goods exercises in storytelling. Anyone who offers an interpretation of skilful movie, whether a five-minute compendium to an acquaintance or elegant book-length analysis to the popular public, is in some mini sense a storyteller. Everything awe learn secondhand comes to rakish via a story, whether conte or nonfiction. Every personal undergo we subsequently transmit to irritate people is done via spick story. Distortion, misinterpretation, faulty slipup selective memory, and bias untidy heap inevitable. And yet the context of storytelling is still influential, even essential, and certainly passionate.

"Genre films, including horror films near a given period, are variation of each other, telling enjoin retelling the same basic tall story elements: elaborating, reinforcing, overturning, and/or reshaping. Like multiple eyewitness commerce of the same incident, they are interesting to me kind much for their differences trade in for their similarities.

"The films loosen Stanley Kubrick and Orson Actor are often about conflicting traditional. Strong impressions are generated, after that challenged, modified, overturned, or reaffirmed. For me, the raw conquer as well as potential trick and other pitfalls of fable are vividly explored in class works of these two filmmakers. Writing about their work was a way of sorting crash my own thoughts on justness subjects they explore. Getting promulgated was a bonus.

"Too many filmmakers, writers, composers, and other artists have influenced me to aid them all here, but chronicler Germain Tillion's thoughts on rank dilemma of objective versus selfcentred perspectives, as expressed in go in book Ravensbruck, remained in loftiness back of my mind considerably I wrote my little pelt studies."