Impact Of Cinema on Society
Cinema is a
creative expression. It Performa the tractions of mass media, such as
information, education, films are widely popular and their audit visual nature
provides them a pervasive power for social influence. Therefore, they have the
potential to play an important role as a medium of entertainment, information
and education and as a catalyst for social change.
Almost every
person of the society has participated in the activity of going to cinema hall
and enjoying a film. According to Jovett and Linton,
“Obviously
there is still something unique and inherently appealing about going to the
movies.”
The social
institution of movie going is firmly established in our society and movies have
played in an important part as one of the factors contributing to the dramatic
changes which have taken place in he last so years in the way we live and also
in how we perceive the world us not only with entertainment, but also with ideas,
and it would be difficult to conceive of our society without them.
Films
have psychological impact on people. The extent of reality that can be
presented through films is far greatening than television or any other medium.
Their language is universal and this helps in breaking any social or cultural
barriers.
Each genre of
film is capable of creating impact on the masses. For example, comedy and
hilarious movies entertain people and relax them. Social or tragic movies
provide outset to the emotions of the viewers.
Types of Films:
When are talks
of cinema there are two major forms, generally known by people.
1) Commercial
Cinema:
It primarily
aims at providing entertainment to the people. It includes the ingredients of
popular cinema star system, high budget, abundance of music, song and dance. It
mostly repots to phantasm to provide entertainment to people for example, films
like vaqt, Sholay, Muqhdar ka sikkandar. Hum apke hain kaun, are a few examples
of such films.
2) Art Cinema:
It is more
realistic and relevant to the needs of the people and society. This form is not
very popular. It is also called ‘parallel cinema’. Alternative cinema’ or ‘new
wave cinema’. These new trend films are male at law cost. Outside the main
stream of commercial cinema.
In the last
fifty years, cinema has become not only a serious art form nut a field of study
by itself. Continuous advantage/ Advancement in film take viewer to the world
outside his day-to-day world providing entertainment. This has made cinema a
popular medium of masses.
Indian
educationists and sociologists have shown a surprising lack of interest in the
film as an educational force and a social challenge. Hardly any academic,
systematic, scientific, studies have been undertaken on the social and
psychological impact of the films in India.
Films have a
hypnotic influence on most children and heroines. They indulge in day dreaming
and fantasy and when it increases. Children become unable to accept the hard
realities of life. Apart from these, films create fear, terror, sorrow and
pathos, love and passion, thrill, excitement and stimulation people suffer from
have over after watching a film. Thus, films have a dynamic influence on people
which ultimately, affects the society as a whole.
Most films
implicitly subscribe to the view that the highest goals in life are power,
money, luxury, public adulation and one can use any means to achieve these
goal. Thus, most of the films glorify false patterns of life.
There have
been fear studies on effects of violence and sex in specific films on children
and youth. When we want to know the impact of films: one has to look at had
stories of cinema attest the actual life of the people.
The main
reasons for going to see films have been to learn about the world of ides and
things, to forget and get away to escape, to pass time, to relive boredom, to
impress others.
Having seen a
film saves as it shows that an integration as it the mainstream cultural
activities of his reference group. Having seen film in first week of its
release is a minor form of prestige. People tend to use scenes from films as
analogies to real life situations, or use dialogue from movies as a common
means of expression understood by all.
Films as mass
media continue to play an important role in our society. Despite television
many people today go to the theater to see the films to enjoy the photography
and music and sound effects, whenever they leisure time.
Many foreign
films are also being shown in theatres as well as a television. Many feel that
these films pose a threat to our austral identity. These films help people to
know the culture, values, people at the would. As a result they are able to
select their value system with more wisdom and maturity because cultural
ripeness also contributes to the development of mind.
The films
affected television also. the film directors and producers turned to television
to produce either mythological like Mahabharata and Ramayana or soap operas
like Buniyaad, Rajini, Nukkad and Swabhimaan. Telefilma, were also produced
such as ‘Janam’and ‘Phir Teri Kahani Yad Aye’etd. In Indian cinema the awerness
of social relevance was very much there till recently.
Violence in Films:
Most of the
films Enders social evils like Dowry, bigamy, role stereotypes, pragmatism and
domination of anti social elements and so on. Films being powerful and popular
medium having, strong reality dimension in its presentation encourages
adolescents and youth in resorting to crime, violence and taking law into one’s
own hands.
Woman is being
more and more prostrated as sex objects in the films. They are used to include
the elements of vulgarity in films by making them to suggestive gestures and
udity and to entertain the audience with cheap, vulgar dances and songs. Their
costumes or dresses are shown vulgarly in the name of modernity.
Advantages of Cinema:
The emotional
impact left by films helps in shopping personal and social attitudes. They
presto the situation in a dramatize recreation form which brings reality also
and assures the involvement of the velar and leaves emotional impact.
1 comment:
Hello! Jitendra,
You have put a very nice content about impact of Cinema on society.It can be both positive and negative also. Do you believe that?
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