Audie Bock
| Audie Elizabeth Bock | |
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| Member of the California State Assembly from the 16th district |
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In office 1999–2000 |
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| Preceded by | Don Perata |
| Succeeded by | Wilma Chan |
| Personal details | |
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October 15, 1946 Berkeley, California |
| Nationality | American |
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Green Democratic Republican No Party Preference |
| Occupation | film scholar |
Audie Elizabeth Bock (born October 15, 1946) is an American film scholar and politician who served in the California State Assembly from 1999 to 2000.
She was elected in 1999 as a Green Party member during a special election for Oakland's 16th Assembly District, but switched to the Democratic Party after the 2000 election.
Bock was born and raised in Berkeley, California. She attended Berkeley High School. She then attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1967.
For the next five years, she lived in Japan, near Tokyo, where she taught English and helped to publish English-language travel books.
After that, she returned to the United States to attend Harvard University, where she received a master's degree in East Asian studies. She stayed at Harvard to receive a PhD, where she wrote a dissertation on Japanese film directors. This involved returning to Japan and interviewing some directors, including Akira Kurosawa; the two struck up a friendship as a result.
Bock's dissertation was published as the 1978 book Japanese film directors ().
Bock served as an assistant producer on Kurosawa's 1980 film Kagemusha.
Bock translated Akira Kurosawa's partial autobiography, Something Like An Autobiography (), which was published in 1983 by Vintage International. In 1985 she wrote the first book-length study in English of Mikio Naruse, Naruse: A Master of the Japanese Cinema.
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