Abstract:
Films are a form of entertainment that reflects everyday lives, which often accentuates
on romance, humour, invectives and violent elements. The Kumawood films which is
an Akan language movies are premised on these elements. Some scholars have argued
that the Akan language movies are sub-standard and full of invectives and violence.
This study therefore examines the delineations of invectives and violence in Kumawood
movies using the qualitative approach and scrutinizes the elements of invectives and
violence embedded in 16 Kumawood movies using qualitative content analysis as a
research design. Through the aggressive cue theory, it probed into the types of
invectives and violence in the movies and the degree of representation of these
phenomena in the 16 movies. The study revealed three types of invectives and violence
in the 16 movies: physical invectives, visual invectives, and sexotype invectives.
Likewise, the study discovered physical violence, non-physical violence and sexual
violence as the types of violence embedded in the 16 Kumawood movies. Findings from
the study confirm that physical invectives and physical violence permeate the
Kumawood movies, reinforcing the notion that such aberrant behaviours can be
normalized in society. The study recommends that The National Film Authority of
Ghana develop and ensure stricter censoring of the Kumawood movies to be devoid
of excessive use of invectives and violence.
Description:
A dissertation in the Department of Communication and Media Studies,
Faculty of Foreign Languages Education and Communication, submitted to
the School of Graduate Studies, in partial fulfilment
of the requirements for the award of the degree of
Master of Philosophy
(Communication and Media Studies – Media Studies)
in the University of Education, Winneba.
JULY, 2020
