Nollywood Films Industry and Domestic Violence: A Multimodal Analysis

Анотація

This research examines gender inequality and domestic violence in Nollywood movies. Gender inequality and domestic violence is linguistically represented in Nollywood movies as a challenge still facing Africa today. This research addresses how gender inequality and domestic violence is portrayed and the linguistic representation of the relationship between gender inequality and domestic violence in Nollywood movies. This work also addresses gender inequality and domestic violence and their adverse effects on the victims in the movies. How is gender inequality and domestic violence portrayed in Nollywood movies? What language is used to reflect the relationship between gender inequality and domestic violence in the movies? What are the adverse effects of gender inequality and domestic violence in the movies? The hypothesis is that gender inequality and domestic violence is a persistent issue in some parts of Africa. The language to subjugate women is used in addressing feminist conflict situations and victims suffer adverse effects. The theory of multimodal discourse analysis, feminism, and feminist film theory were used to analyze the language used to subjugate women respectively. This research used the qualitative method of analysis which focuses on the content of two films. We sampled Nollywood movies: Say No to Abusive Marriage (2017) by Chidi Anyanwu Chidox and Say No to Domestic Violence (2018) by Emeka Bishop Nwabunze. The interpretive approach was used to analyze the films and the results were that the language used in addressing feminist conflict situations in Nollywood movies is a manifestation of violence and there is gender inequality as women are viewed as subordinate to men and of lower social status.