Audience perception of the reality in the representations of women in Nigerian films

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Title:	Audience perception of the reality in the representations of women in Nigerian films
Author:	Azeez, Adesina Lukuman
Year:	2013
Periodical:	Journal of African Cinemas (ISSN 1754-923X)
Volume:	5
Issue:	2
Pages:	149-166
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	films audiences gender women images
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1386/jac.5.2.149_1
Abstract:	This article examines the reactions of audiences to the representation of women in Nigerian films by investigating how audience, particularly female viewers, perceive the representations. The article suggests that the portrayals of women in Nigerian films are a representation of the dominant ideas about women, which are created and valued by the discursive practices and cultural system of Nigerian society. Since these ideas are ideologically biased, the representations of women that are mainly drawn from them represented only a fraction of the reality of women's lives. The author stresses the need to challenge and change the pattern of the representations of women in Nigerian films. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited]