Word: connorism
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Three years in a row during the 1930s, the prize went to Ozu, who eventually went on to become the winner of the most Kinema Jumpo Best Picture prizes of any director. Assistant Professor in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) J.D. Connor ’92 explains that although Ozu was so successful in Japan and such an admirer of American cinema, his arrival on the American film scene is a comparatively recent phenomenon...
...There was a huge mismatch between reception in Japan and reception abroad, but it wouldn’t be cinema history without him in a major way,” says Connor, who currently teaches “Cinema of the Sound Era” in the VES department and requires his students to watch Ozu’s films. “We’re lucky,” he says. “You don’t get this chance very often...
...stayed silent longer than his contemporaries, and Connor points out that his silent films were not readily available in 35 mm, their preferred viewing format, until recently. Furthermore, a great deal of his sound work hadn’t been subtitled properly, so Shochiku’s job of striking new prints was deeply appreciated by professors and fans alike...
...decades, the Supreme Court has been able to define this common ground. Its complex process of getting there through split decisions based on opinions that concur and dissent in parts can seem magical. In fact, that magic has a human face to it: that of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. By being the practical-minded swing vote on the court, she has quietly become one of the most influential people in the U.S. and, at age 74, has let friends know that she has no plans to relinquish that role...
Plucked by Ronald Reagan in 1981 from a state appeals court in Arizona to be the first female on the Supreme Court, O'Connor established a reputation for seeking sensible outcomes on a case-by-case basis rather than developing a sweeping legal philosophy. By the 1990s, she had become the swing vote that most frequently determined the most important cases. That was evident in a 1992 landmark abortion ruling, cobbled together with partial concurrences, in which she reaffirmed Roe v. Wade while noting the legitimate state interests in protecting "the life of the fetus that may become a child...