Randy Rasmussen Papers, 1971-2020

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Series 1: Writings, 1971-2018

The first series consists of Randy Rasmussen's completed writings, arranged alphabetically. Randy Rasmussen was a published film studies scholar and four of his monographs are available in the Department of Special Collections.

Box 1

Folder 1: Children of the Night: the Six Archetypal Characters of Classic Horror Films. Advertisements and Reviews, 1998

Folder 2: "Europe '76: the Diary of Two Mad Travelers" by Terri Mickelson and Randy Rasmussen, 1976

Volume 1: "Four Horror Films Go to War: Son of Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, Son of Dracula, Cat People and American Fears During World War II"

Volume 2: "An Investigation of Context, Character, and Technique in James Whale's Film Horror Fantasies." UND Master's Thesis, 1980

Folder 3: "James Whale and the Classic Horror Fantasy"

Folder 4: "A Little Romance and Its Second Cousins: Before Sunrise, the World of Henry Orient, and Romeo and Juliet"

Volume 3: "Lolita: Domestic Maneuvers. The Missing Chapter from Stanley Kubrick: Seven Films Analyzed", 1997

Folder 5: "Notes on A Clockwork Orange (1971)"

Folder 6: "Notes on Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)"

Folder 7: "Notes on Planet of the Apes (1968)"

Folder 8: "Notes on The Black Cat (1934)"

Folder 9: "Notes on 2001: a Space Odyssey (1968)"

Volume 4: "Orson Welles's Macbeth: Murdered Dreams", 2006

Folder 10: Papers, early 1970s

Item 1: "An Examination of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Novel Frankenstein"

Folder 11: Papers, 1971

Item 1: "A Brief History of My Association with the Hunting of Animals"

Item 2: "Concerning Logic and Two Short Stories by Edgar Allen Poe"

Item 3: "An Examination of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Novel Frankenstein"

Item 4: "On the Drama 'Cain,' by Lord George Gordon Byron"

Item 5: "On the Essays of Percy Bysshe Shelley"

Item 6: "On the Subject of Vegetarianism"

Item 7: "A Personal Examination of Two Short Stories Written by Mary W. Shelley"

Item 8: "Personal Views on Several Motion Pictures"

Item 9: "Reactions to the Music of Several Composers"

Item 10: "Thoughts on Shelley's 'A Defence of Poetry'"

Folder 12: Papers, 1972

Item 1: "A Brief Examination of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane"

Item 2: "A Critical Analysis of Byron's Manfred"

Item 3: "A Critical Analysis of Shelley's 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'"

Item 4: "Monsieur Verdoux and the Chaplin Technique"

Item 5: "The Seventh Seal: Film Techniques of Ingmar Bergman"

Item 6: "Thoughts on Lord Byron's Cain"

Folder 13: Papers, 1973

Item 1: "Aristotle, Johnson, Goldsmith: a Comparison of Theories on Dramatic Poetry"

Item 2: "Binsey Poplars: Hopkins, Natural Beauty, and Man"

Item 3: "The Brothers: Instress in Man"

Item 4: "Browning and the Necessity of an Acceptable Self-Image"

Item 5: "Cleopatra: Two Interpretations"

Item 6: "The End of Glory, Lawrence Lafore"

Item 7: "An Explication of Tennyson's 'Saint Simeon Stylites'"

Item 8: "Fantasy in the Novel and Film 415: Final Exam"

Item 9: "Hitler: the Last Ten Days"

Item 10: "Matthew Arnold and the Byronic Madman"

Item 11: "The Novel to Film Translation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

Item 12: "The Pentagon Propaganda Machine, J. William Fulbright"

Item 13: "The Rape of the Lock and the Profund"

Item 14: "Robinson Crusoe, the Middle-Class, and Ambition"

Item 15: "The Tempest: Shakespeare's Ultimate Fantasy"

Item 16: "Translation of the Frankenstein Legend: Novel to Film"

Item 17: Untitled, regarding Albert Camus

Item 18: Untitled, regarding the United States Supreme Court

Folder 14: Papers, 1974

Item 1: "Historians, Detectives, and the Pursuit of Evidence"

Item 2: "Horsefeathers-Duck Soup: the Marx Brothers vs. the World"

Item 3: "Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar"

Item 4: "The Sense of the Absurd in Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra"

Item 5: "T.S. Eliot and the Ideas in Mencken's 'American Culture'"

Folder 15: Papers, 1975-1976

Item 1: "Problems of Thematic Sources and Interpretations of Byron's Manfred", 1975

Item 2: "Analysis of the Character Je in A Taste of Honey", 1976

Item 3: "Critical Evaluation of Josef van Sternberg's The Blue Angel", 1976

Item 4: "Ironic Implications in James Whale's Trilogy of Fantasy Films", 1976

Folder 16: Papers, 1977-1978

Item 1: "'Bartleby': Adaptation from Short Story to Film", 1977

Item 2: "'Bartleby' and the Romantic Preoccupation", 1977

Item 3: "Privacy and Deception in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying", 1977

Item 4: "Ring Lardner, Jr. and the Influences on His Work", 1977

Item 5: Untitled, regarding Willa Cather, 1977

Item 6: "American Graffiti: Involvement vs. Detachment", 1978

Item 7: "Habits of Mind: Four Novels by H.G. Wells", 1978

Item 8: "The Island of Doctor Moreau: Crisis and Readjustment", 1978

Folder 17: Papers, undated

Item 1: "The Horror Film: 1930-1935"

Item 2: "Pinter's Idea of Characterization in The Birthday Party"

Item 3: Untitled, regarding James Whale's Frankenstein

Folder 18: Stanley Kubrick: Seven Films Analyzed. Advertisements, Correspondence, and Reviews, 2001

Volume 5: "Tangling with Dragons: Growing Up Fairy Tale Style in Tangled and How to Train Your Dragon", 2018

Volume 6: "Tangos Before Sunrise, Sunset, and Midnight: a Conversational Journey with Jesse and Celine", 2017

Series 2: Drafts

The second series consists of Randy Rasmussen's rough drafts and notes, arranged alphabetically. Some of these drafts became published works, while others remained solely drafts.

Box 1

Folder 19: "Annabel Lee"

Folder 20: "Before Midnight"

Folder 21: "Before Sunrise"

Folder contents: Loose notebook paper, a typed written rough draft, and one handwritten notebook

Folder 22: "Before Sunset"

Box 2

Folder 1: "The Birds"

Folder 2: "Chimes at Midnight"

Folder 3: "Fallen Heroes"

Folder 4: "Dr. Strangelove"

Folder contents: three individual notebooks

Folder 5: "Film Notes", 1981-1989

Folder 6: "Forbidden Planet: Utopia vs. Dystopia"

Folder 7: "Frankenstein by Mary Shelley"

Folder 8: "How to Train Your Dragon"

Folder contents: three individual notebooks

Folder 9: "Jacques Barzun", 1977

Folder 10: "A Little Romance (1979)"

Folder 11: "The Magnificent Ambersons"

Folder 12: "Notes on A Clockwork Orange"

Folder 13: "Notes on Cat People (1942)"

Folder 14: "Notes to The Great Garrick"

Folder 15: "Orson Welles's Macbeth"

Folder 16: "'Ozymandias' by Percy Shelley"

Folder 17: "Poe"

Folder 18: "Revised Halloween Sequel"

Folder 19: "Rocky Horror Picture Show"

Folder contents: loose leaf paper and one individual notebook

Folder 20: "The Shining"

Folder contents: four individual notebooks

Folder 21: "Son of Dracula (1943)"

Folder 22: "The Wolfman"

Folder contents: two individual notebooks

Folder 23: Untitled notebook, regarding Citizen Kane

Folder 24: Untitled notebook, regarding The Lady from Shanghai

Folder 25

Box 3

Folder 1: Untitled notebook - Miscellaneous film notes

Folder 2: Untitled notebook - Miscellaneous film notes

Folder 3: Untitled miscellaneous notebook

Folder 4: Untitled miscellaneous notebook

Folder 5: Untitled miscellaneous notebook

Series 3: Correspondence, 2009-2020

Box 3

Folder 6: E-mails (printed out), circa 2009-2013

Personal e-mails to and from various individuals

Folder 7: Correspondence with McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2013

Folder 8: Thank you note to the Chester Fritz Library, 21 December 2020

Series 4: Photographs

Box 3

Folder 9: Rasmussen Family Photographs, 1993-1994

Folder 10: Chester Fritz Library Photographs

Box 4

Volume 1: Green Photograph Album, 1990s

Photographs depict the staff at the UND Bookstore, the Chester Fritz Library, and the buildings and grounds of the University of North Dakota

Volume 2: Red Photograph Album

Various photographs of the buildings and grounds on the University of North Dakota

Series 5: Miscellaneous

Box 3

Folder 11: Randy Rasmussen Memorial Lecture Series, 2023-