Yasunosuke Gonda
Yasunosuke Gonda (権田保之助, Gonda Yasunosuke) (17 May 1887 – 5 January 1951) was a Japanese sociologist and film theorist who played an important role in the study of popular entertainment and helped pioneer statistical studies of everyday life in Japan.
Yasunosuke Gonda 権田保之助 | |
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| Born | May 17, 1887 |
| Died | January 5, 1951 (aged 63) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Sociologist |
| Known for | Popular culture studies |
Career
Born in the Kanda area of Tokyo, Gonda was early attracted to the socialism of Isoo Abe, and his early political activities earned expulsion from Waseda High School.[1] He later studied at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Tokyo University where he was influenced by German statistical sociology.[1] His first book, The Principles and Applications of the Moving Pictures (Katsudō shashin no genri oyobi ōyō), was published in 1914, and was the first full-length monograph in Japan studying the medium of cinema.[1] His later research on lower class life and popular play focused on how popular culture was generated from the bottom up and challenged top-down notions of national or modern culture.[2]
Selected bibliography
- Gonda, Yasunosuke (1974–1975). Gonda Yasunosuke chosakushū (in Japanese). Bunwa Shobō.
- Gonda, Yasunosuke (December 2010). "The Principles and Applications of the Moving Pictures (Excerpts)". Review of Japanese Culture and Society. 22: 24–36. JSTOR 42800637.
References
- Gerow, Aaron (2010). Visions of Japanese Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 72–73. ISBN 978-0-520-25456-5.
- See Harootunian and Silverberg.
Further reading
- Harootunian, H. D. (2001). Overcome by Modernity. Princeton University Press.
- Silverberg, Miriam (1992). "Constructing the Japanese Ethnography of Modernity," Journal of Asian Studies 51.1 (February 1992): pp. 30-54.
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