THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS‟(ACTION FILM) ON THE SOCIAL BEHAVIOURAL PATTERN OF STUDENTS

 

abstract

 

The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of 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 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 the study. Research findings shows that the students in NnamdiAzikiwe University, Awka were exposed to action films and were being affected to a great extent by the films they watched. To this end, the researcher recommended that parents, lecturers and school authorities should help Government to sensitize the students on the danger of so much exposure to the action films. Students should also resolve in their minds to restrain from any film that would be injurious to their social orientation. The research suggested that further research should be carried out on the roles of film industries in eradicating negative behaviours and vices among youths.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   t

 

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 o events. Most Nigerians today, educated or not, have unknowingly, conferred on television and

 

films, the status of baby sitter in their homes.

 

 

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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, th 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

 

 

 

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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 academyldrenare ofinfluencedpediatricby media, they learn by observing, imitating and to note that since the inception of action films, there have been increase incidents of violent

 

behaviours in youths.

 

Action films have both detrimental (negative) and beneficial (positive) effects on youths. Pro-social behaviour and anti-social behaviour are the outcome of youths exposure to action films.

 

The impact of the fast and the furious on the behavioural pattern or development of youths can be a pro-social behavior learnt from films and are imitations which including sharing extrusion behaviour, co-operation, speech construction etc. Anti-social behaviours are verbal, that is, insults and physical aggression, stealing, bullying, fighting etc.

 

Liebert et al (1998) agree that significant exposure to media violence increase the risk of aggressive behaviour in certain youths. They reviewed that other effects include desensitization

 

to other‟s pain and sufferingomefearfulofthe worldandaroundthethem, tenden viewing it as a dangerous place. Also in America, which has now spread to otherparts of the

 

world via satellite television, the sexularization of American media has serious dangerous influence on youths.

 

• Statement of the Research Problem

 

 

 

 

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Film as we know portrays the cultural, social and life orientation of a given society. This indicates that once youths watch films they become exposed to the entire scenario which the film portrays, that is the entire cultural and social setting.

 

Youths learn negative behaviour patterns and values from the films they watch and that is why it is therefore necessary to carry out a survey on the effect of this action films on the undergraduate students.

 

Therefore, the question of this study seeks to answer is; what is the actual impact of the fast and the furious on the social behavioural pattern of the undergraduate students in NnamdiAzikiwe University, Awka.

 

• Objectives of Study

 

 

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