Audie Bock

Audie Elizabeth Bock (born October 15, 1946 in Glens Falls , New York State ) is an American college professor, film scholar and politician. She was the first member of the American Greens to be elected to a state parliament.

biography

Academic career

Bock grew up in Berkeley , California , and graduated from Wellesley College in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in French. She then lived in Japan for a few years, and in 1974 she received a Masters degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University . With the help of a Fulbright grant , she went back to Japan to write her dissertation on ten Japanese filmmakers. This was published in 1978 under the title "Japanese film directors". Her monograph on Mikio Naruse was published in 1984 . In Japan, Audie Bock became friends with the director Akira Kurosawa . She was a production assistant on his film Kagemusha and translated his autobiography "Something Like An Autobiography" into English.

politics

Originally facing the Democrats , Audie Bock joined the Greens in 1994. In early 1999 there was a by-election in the 16th electoral district of the California State Assembly , triggered by the rise of incumbent Don Perata to the California Senate . Bock was a candidate for the Greens and was considered to have practically no chance. Favorite Elihu Harris , Mayor of Oakland , was the top three Democratic nominee and only got 49% instead of the required absolute majority. With just under 9% of the vote, Bock was the best representative of another party - the Republicans had not put up a candidate - and therefore got into a runoff election with Harris. There she was supported by Democrats who were dissatisfied with Harris, and Harris was accused of buying votes - vouchers for roasted chicken were sent to voters. Bock won the runoff election by 50.6% or 327 votes.

In August 1999, Audie Bock left the Green Party for electoral reasons and ran as an independent candidate in the regular parliamentary elections at the end of 2000. Nevertheless, she could not repeat her surprise success of 1999 and had no chance against the Democrat Wilma Chan . Bock then rejoined the Democratic Party. In the 2003 gubernatorial elections she received 3,358 votes (0.04%) and was 22nd among 135 applicants.

Works

• Japanese film directors , 1978
• Naruse: A master of the Japanese cinema: a retrospective , 1984
• Something Like An Autobiography , translation, 1983

Web links

• Audie Bock election results

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Victory by California Assembly Candidate Is First for Greens . New York Times . April 4, 1999. Retrieved April 13, 2014.
2. ↑ Audie Bock in the Internet Movie Database
3. ↑ Green will bring new tone to Assembly By Patrick Hoge, Sacramento Bee, Capitol Bureau - archived article from the Sacramento Bee of April 2, 1999 ( Memento of February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Don Perata	California State Assembly District 16 1999-2000	Wilma Chan