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Modern Culture and Media concentrator Harold Acker ’13 is just ending random syllables with “-ism” now, sources report. Acker, who has been talking about the gender roles in 1970s Asian films for the past 20 minutes, has been gradually moving away from using real words since he began talking.
“What Yasuda is doing in that scene is classic bagelism,” said Acker, while spreading cream cheese on a whole wheat bagel. “And the genre was really dominated by fantopactism at the time, so what he was doing was completely radical.”
Alice Shapiro ’13, who witnessed the conversation, said Acker “seemed totally confident about it. I thought he was using real words but then at some point I think he started just combining French words with suffixes.”
“The heroes in his early films epitomized the fromagization of the early 70s,” said Acker. “Foucault would have agreed with me here. His theory of social combienism is totally present in Yasuda’s films.”
Acker, who continued on to attribute theories of penserism, fancy-prancism, berfensterfenism and texmexualization to French philosopher Michel Foucault, maintained that it was Yasuda’s bagelism that really defined the next 10 years of Japanese cinema. “Classic Yasuda bagelism,” said Acker. “I don’t mean to be presumptuous, but Foucault would have backed me up here.”
