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Impact Of The The Fast And The Furious (action Film) On The Social Behavioral Pattern Of Students Of Nnamdi Azikiwe University
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of Study
To fully
comprehend the research topic, it is important to know and fully
appreciate the power of television and films as media used to
disseminate information. Television is virtually seen in almost every
household. It was introduced to the masses at the New York World‟s fair
in 1939.
Jeffery Schrank (1985:21), says television is the greatest
invention of the twentieth century. Some on the contrary, see it as a
vast wasteland that steals time and turns viewers into couch potatoes.
All the same, television is the most competent, involuntary, electronic
message carrier of our time. It brings to millions of heterogeneous
viewer‟s door steps, live or recorded events. Most Nigerians today,
educated or not, have unknowingly, conferred on television and films,
the status of baby sitter in their homes. 3
Film is a study recorded
as a set of moving pictures to be shown on the television or at the
cinema. It is also a roll on sheet of thus flexible plastic that is
sensitive to light for the use in photography. Film also known as movie
or motion pictures is a series of still moving images. It is produced by
recording photographic images with cameras or by creating images using
animation techniques or visual effects. It is considered to be an
important form, a source of popular entertainment, a powerful method for
educating or indoctrinating people especially children and youths.
Balogun
F:(1987) classified film into European film, American film, Chinese
film, Nigerian film, lengthy feature films among others. All these
classifications can produce violent films, comic films, entertainment
film, romance etc. But of these types of films, this study is on Action
Films which can be classified under violent films and its impact on the
social behavioural pattern of undergraduate students.
Action film is
a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of
challenges that require physical feats extended fights and frantic
chases. It tends to feature a resourceful character struggling against
incredible odds, which include life threatening situations, a villain,
or a pursuit which generally concludes in victory for the hero.
Advancements in CGI (Computer Generated Imargery) have made it cheaper
and easier to create action sequence and other visual effects that
required the efforts of professional stunt crews in the past. However,
reactions to action films containing significant amounts of CGI have
been mixed as films that use computer animations to create unrealistic
highly unbelievable events which are often met with criticism. Action
has long been an element of films, the “action film†as a genre of its
own began to develop in the 1970s. The genre is closely linked with the
thriller and adventure film, and it may sometimes have elements of spy
fiction and espionage. Action film have traditionally been a reliable
source of revenue for film studios, relatively few action films garner
critical praise. Action film have traditionally been aimed at the male
audience from the early teens to the mid-30s, many action film makers
from the 1990s and 2000s added female heroine in response to the
expanding social conception of gender glorifying the strong female
archetype.
According to American academy of pediatrics (AAP) 2005
„„Children are influenced by media, they learn by observing, imitating
and making behaviour their ownâ€. It is quite depressing to note that
since the inception of action films, there have been increase incidents
of violent behaviours in youths.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of the „The Fast and the Furious‟ (action film) on the social behavioural pattern of students. To achieve this, the survey research design was used. Subjects were drawn from student‟s composition of five faculties in NnamdiAzikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, using the simple random sampling technique and purposive sampling. The sample size was 380 and 350 copies of questionnaire were retrieved. Four research questions guided t ... Continue reading---
