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Influence Of Home Videos On The Moral Behavior Of Students Of Caritas University
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The development of films in Nigeria started with the colonial
experience. The first film shot took place at the Glover hall Lagos, on
Monday August 12th and lasted for 10 nights Messrs. Bolboa of
BorceoniaSoain shaved the film under management of the Nigerian Herbert
Macaulay. Nevertheless film production started rather late. According to
Balogun (1987),Obe was considered the first to have made a standard
film production in Nigeria by making mute film for the health department
in the year 1936.
In 1947 the Nigerian government established the
federal film Unit. The unit produced many newsreels, and documentary
films in the fifties, the film industry in Nigeria was dominated totally
by foreigners and foreign films.
During this ere, film shows were
done in cinema halls, village squares, schools and church premises among
other locations. This public show of films, made it possible to show
only films that were of “high technical qualityâ€. With the advent of
video cassettes, video compact disc (VCD) or the digital video disc
(DVD), the old culture of going to the cinema centre’s and public arenas
for film shows dropped. Children and adults sit indoors glued to their
TV sets. Then the area of home movies was born. Movies in English,
Pidgin English, Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba flooded the market on daily
basis.
It is pertinent to draw the attention of the Minister of
Information and Communication Mr. LabaranMaku, to the arts and industry
in Nigeria. Only a fool will argue that the country’s art and culture
industry is insignificant in the nations rebranding.
It has been
established rightly that the movie industry of Nigeria (Nollywood) is
the biggest in Africa and also comes third after Bollywood of India with
the United States of America’s Hollywood in the forefront.
However a
cursory look at the content of our home videos brands is good enough to
keep well intention tourist and visitors out of our shoes. Over 90% of
movies released in Nigeria, display perverted and negative impression
about the country, where violence and afro-centric sciences of juju and
ritualized killings dominate the scene. Also most moves are seen as
pornographic because most of the actors and actresses appear nude. At
times one wonders where the imaginations of the script writers spurn
from; as a result of the kind of bizarre make-belief movies they
produce. Even young Nigerian growing up under the influence of these
images is bound to develop negative virtues about his environment and
people.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of home video on the moral behavior of students of Caritas University Enugu. To achieve this, the survey research method was used. Subjects were drawn from the Caritas University, using the simple random sampling techniques and purposive sampling. Four research questions guided the study. Research findings showed that, a great number of students in Caritas University, Enugu have access to allot of home videos. To the end, the researcher recommen ... Continue reading---
