THE SELF-SACRIFICING IMAGE AS A GENRE IN NIGERIAN VIDEO FILMS.

Creativity in the real sense of it projects new or already existing issues differently which may engender questions and sometimes proffer solutions. Thus, women s representation as victims of self-sacrifice in films could be termed a product of artistic creation extracted from socially constructed roles for the female folk. It is against this background that the theme of self-sacrificing image as a genre in films has been examined to know its source or origin and its relation to women s representation in the Nigerian video film industry. Furthermore, this work is set to highlight its emergence through the analyses of some Nollywood films that have presented women as victim of this kind of creative representation. The main focus is on the pains, marginalization and subjugation of women as occasioned by instituted patriarchal structures in our society. Selected films that have been examined under this theme are: Living in Bondage I II (VicMordi Christian onu, 1992), Mother s Cry (Zack Orji, 2002), Living Dead (Ekenna U. Igwe, 2004), and Yesterday (Lancelot Oduwalmasuen, 1998)