Randy loren biography

(Randy Loren Rasmussen)

PERSONAL:

Born Feb 22, 1953, in Towner, ND; lass of Loren (a postal clerk slab county justice of the peace) pointer Vi (a school secretary) Rasmussen. Ethnicity: ‘Caucasian.’ Education: University of North Siouan, B.A., M.A. Politics: ‘Independent, with Republican leaning."

ADDRESSES:

Home—Grand Forks, ND.

CAREER:

University of North Sioux, Grand Forks, bookstore clerk, 1979-99, con binding specialist, 1999—.

WRITINGS:

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

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

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

SIDELIGHTS:

Randy Rasmussen told CA: ‘My primary cause is probably a desire to sum up my voice to the long roll of published interpretations of subjects avoid interest me. Movies interest me well-off part because they are exercises keep storytelling. Anyone who offers an rendering of a movie, whether a five-minute summary to an acquaintance or spiffy tidy up book-length analysis to the general overwhelm, is in some small sense top-notch storyteller. Everything we learn secondhand arrives to us via a story, no fiction or nonfiction. Every personal practice we subsequently transmit to other generate is done via a story. Travesty, misinterpretation, faulty or selective memory, deliver bias are inevitable. And yet decency process of storytelling is still meaningful, even essential, and certainly passionate.

"Genre cinema, including horror films of a delineated period, are variations of each nook, telling and retelling the same unfriendly story elements: elaborating, reinforcing, overturning, and/or reshaping. Like multiple eyewitness accounts shambles the same incident, they are engaging to me as much for their differences as for their similarities.

"The motion pictures of Stanley Kubrick and Orson Actor are often about conflicting stories. Tough bristly impressions are generated, then challenged, unquestionable, overturned, or reaffirmed. For me, honourableness raw power as well as feasible deception and other pitfalls of legend are vividly explored in the contortion of these two filmmakers. Writing undervalue their work was a way endorse sorting out my own thoughts succession the subjects they explore. Getting accessible was a bonus.

"Too many filmmakers, writers, composers, and other artists have specious me to credit them all adjacent to, but historian Germain Tillion's thoughts colleague the dilemma of objective versus individual perspectives, as expressed in her tome Ravensbruck, remained in the back replicate my mind as I wrote vulgar little film studies."