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Douglas Rasmussen
Douglas Rasmussen is a writer and academic with a Master of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Saskatchewan. His primary areas of research are Film Studies and contemporary American literature, and he has written on a number of subjects in film, music, and television.
BOOKS AND MOVIES BY DOUGLAS RASMUSSEN
 Judging Dredd: Examining the World of Judge Dredd (contributor) |
MAGAZINE CONTENT BY DOUGLAS RASMUSSEN
Vehicular Violence, the Lawmaster, and Judge Dredd
The character of Judge Dredd that appears in the 1995 adaptation from director Danny Cannon and starring Sylvester Stallone, then later in the more faithful 2012 film with Karl Urban, is based on a British… [more]
Judge Dredd: America as a Critique of Unethical Police Practises
Recently Rebellion 2000AD Ltd collected a series of stories from the long running Judge Dredd “Democracy” storyline in a collection called Essential Judge Dredd: America (2020). In this collection, the stories “Letter from a Democrat”,… [more]
Judge Dredd and the Rise of the Police State
The dystopian science fiction film Dredd (2012), starring Karl Urban as the titular Judge Dredd and Olivia Thirlby as his rookie-in-training Psi Judge Anderson, adapts the popular British comic strip character originally serialized in 2000AD… [more]