THE EFFECT OF FOREIGN FILMS ON YOUTH

CHAPTER ONE
1.0     INTRODUCTION
Of all the media of mass communication, the motion picture is perhaps universally as medium combines pictures and sound to create a lasting Impression. A film can rise above the limitation of language and cultural barriers by the power of its usual images, this use of music and sound effects can succeed in conveying much the same to viewers of heterogonous backgrounds.
Large-scale research on the effect of mass communication began with the polymer fund studies. These Effort of the 1920s and early 1930s Concluded that motion pictures had many Influences and effect on youth. The early research was discredited by experts, but it confirmed they had potentially   dangerous Influence on the youth.
          In content analysis, experiments and survey all Indicators pointed to the conclusion did raise the probability that some youth or youth would be more aggressive. In a review of some 2,500 research studies of the effects of television (the second report to the surgeon general) the link between exposure to violence portrayed on television and aggressive behavior (among youth) was seen as somewhat stronger.
1.1       BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Film has been one of the greatest influences in our modern life, and it is also a form of art, the seventh art along with photography, architecture, literature, play, painting and music. It is the combination of technology, business, entertainment and aesthetics, each and everything of these four has important role in present day world and it is also visible in the variation of its forms, Film is technology(picture taken in the celluloid camera and editing), movie is the business and entertainment, and cinema is the aesthetics (Mahmood Istiak 2013).