Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: The Nigerian home video films have been used to address a myriad of existing and emergent problems because of its distinctiveness and popularity;as a popular art in Nigeria, this study was undertaken to investigate the consideration of the grassroots in the Nigerian political process from the eye of the home videos.The theoretical framework employed was agenda setting with content analysis as the method of research.The results reveal that the grassroots are not given credence as a key factor in the films except as means to justify the ends of the political class and players in the political process.The roles of the grassroots in the political arena are mostly depicted significantly as thugs, assassins, villains, prostitutes and others who are involved in different kinds of undesirable practices and vicious acts.Such portrayals could be contributory to politics often being described as 'a dirty game' with the grassroots increasingly having apathy to political processes and creating the divide of 'them' and 'us'; where 'them'is the political class and 'us' being the grassroots.
Institution: Lagos State University
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2315764197