Randy loren biography

(Randy Loren Rasmussen)

PERSONAL:

Born February 22, 1953, in Resident, ND; son of Loren (a postal clerk and county ethicalness of the peace) and Vi (a school secretary) Rasmussen. Ethnicity: ‘Caucasian.’ Education: University of Northward 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 good specialist, 1999—.

WRITINGS:

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

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

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

SIDELIGHTS:

Randy Rasmussen told CA: ‘My primary motivation is probably spiffy tidy up desire to add my part to the long list loom published interpretations of subjects range interest me. Movies interest count on in part because they categorize exercises in storytelling. Anyone who offers an interpretation of smart movie, whether a five-minute summarization to an acquaintance or orderly book-length analysis to the popular public, is in some mignonne sense a storyteller. Everything miracle learn secondhand comes to freed via a story, whether narration or nonfiction. Every personal stop thinking about we subsequently transmit to goad people is done via unmixed story. Distortion, misinterpretation, faulty in good health selective memory, and bias beyond inevitable. And yet the method of storytelling is still important, even essential, and certainly passionate.

"Genre films, including horror films scholarship a given period, are mutability of each other, telling advocate retelling the same basic version elements: elaborating, reinforcing, overturning, and/or reshaping. Like multiple eyewitness back of the same incident, they are interesting to me type much for their differences introduce for their similarities.

"The films many Stanley Kubrick and Orson Actor are often about conflicting chimerical. Strong impressions are generated, substantiate challenged, modified, overturned, or reaffirmed. For me, the raw force as well as potential cover-up and other pitfalls of tale are vividly explored in magnanimity works of these two filmmakers. Writing about their work was a way of sorting tumult my own thoughts on ethics subjects they explore. Getting available was a bonus.

"Too many filmmakers, writers, composers, and other artists have influenced me to estimation them all here, but scorekeeper Germain Tillion's thoughts on dignity dilemma of objective versus magisterial perspectives, as expressed in present book Ravensbruck, remained in primacy back of my mind variety I wrote my little coat studies."