The Projection of Development : Cinematic Representation as An(other) Source of Authoritative Knowledge?
Popular representations of development need to be taken seriously (though not uncritically) as sources of authoritative knowledge, not least because they are how most people in the global north (and elsewhere) encounter development issues. To this...
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okr-10986-158502021-04-23T14:03:23Z The Projection of Development : Cinematic Representation as An(other) Source of Authoritative Knowledge? Lewis, David Rodgers, Dennis Woolcock, Michael ABUSE ACCESS TO EDUCATION ACTOR ACTORS AID AUDIENCE AUDIENCES BAND BOX OFFICE BULLETIN BUSINESSMAN CAMERA CINEMA CINEMAS CITIZEN CITIZENS CIVIL WAR COLLAPSE COLLUSION COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE CREATIVE ART CRIME DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DOCUMENTARIES DOCUMENTARY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DRAMA DRAMAS DRAWING DRUGS DRUMS ECONOMIC ORDER FEATURE FILM FEATURE FILMS FICTION FILM FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVALS FILM INDUSTRY FILMING FILMS FUTURE RESEARCH GANG GANGS GENRE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT HOSPITAL HUMAN RIGHTS HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS INTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL AID INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT JOURNALISTS LANDSCAPE LITERATURE LOCAL COMMUNITIES MATERIAL RESOURCES MEDIA MEDICAL STAFF MEDIUMS METAPHOR MONEY LAUNDERING MOVIE NATIONAL LEVEL NEWS STORIES NOVEL NOVELS PERSONAL COMMUNICATION PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES PHOTOGRAPHER PICTURE PICTURES PLAYS POLICE POLICY DECISIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INTERESTS POPULAR CULTURE PORTRAIT PRIVATIZATION PROGRESS PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING RESPECT SCREENPLAY SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL SCIENCES STORYTELLING STREET CHILDREN TELEVISION TRAUMA TRIALS UNDERDEVELOPMENT VICTIMS WAR WEALTH WEAVING authoritative knowledge representation Popular representations of development need to be taken seriously (though not uncritically) as sources of authoritative knowledge, not least because they are how most people in the global north (and elsewhere) encounter development issues. To this end, this paper presents three clusters of films on development: those providing uniquely instructive insights, those unhelpfully eliding and simplifying complex processes, and those that, with the benefit of historical hindsight, usefully convey a sense of the prevailing assumptions that guided and interpreted the efficacy of interventions (whether of a military, diplomatic or humanitarian nature) at a particular time and place. The authors argue that the commercial and technical imperatives governing the production of contemporary films, and popular films in particular, generate a highly variable capacity to accurately render key issues in development, and thereby heighten their potential to both illuminate and obscure those issues. 2013-09-26T14:55:12Z 2013-09-26T14:55:12Z 2013-06 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17875992/projection-development-cinematic-representation-another-source-authoritative-knowledge-projection-development-cinematic-representation-another-source-authoritative-knowledge http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15850 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6491 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research |
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ABUSE ACCESS TO EDUCATION ACTOR ACTORS AID AUDIENCE AUDIENCES BAND BOX OFFICE BULLETIN BUSINESSMAN CAMERA CINEMA CINEMAS CITIZEN CITIZENS CIVIL WAR COLLAPSE COLLUSION COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE CREATIVE ART CRIME DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DOCUMENTARIES DOCUMENTARY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DRAMA DRAMAS DRAWING DRUGS DRUMS ECONOMIC ORDER FEATURE FILM FEATURE FILMS FICTION FILM FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVALS FILM INDUSTRY FILMING FILMS FUTURE RESEARCH GANG GANGS GENRE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT HOSPITAL HUMAN RIGHTS HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS INTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL AID INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT JOURNALISTS LANDSCAPE LITERATURE LOCAL COMMUNITIES MATERIAL RESOURCES MEDIA MEDICAL STAFF MEDIUMS METAPHOR MONEY LAUNDERING MOVIE NATIONAL LEVEL NEWS STORIES NOVEL NOVELS PERSONAL COMMUNICATION PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES PHOTOGRAPHER PICTURE PICTURES PLAYS POLICE POLICY DECISIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INTERESTS POPULAR CULTURE PORTRAIT PRIVATIZATION PROGRESS PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING RESPECT SCREENPLAY SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL SCIENCES STORYTELLING STREET CHILDREN TELEVISION TRAUMA TRIALS UNDERDEVELOPMENT VICTIMS WAR WEALTH WEAVING authoritative knowledge representation |
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ABUSE ACCESS TO EDUCATION ACTOR ACTORS AID AUDIENCE AUDIENCES BAND BOX OFFICE BULLETIN BUSINESSMAN CAMERA CINEMA CINEMAS CITIZEN CITIZENS CIVIL WAR COLLAPSE COLLUSION COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE CREATIVE ART CRIME DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DOCUMENTARIES DOCUMENTARY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DRAMA DRAMAS DRAWING DRUGS DRUMS ECONOMIC ORDER FEATURE FILM FEATURE FILMS FICTION FILM FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVALS FILM INDUSTRY FILMING FILMS FUTURE RESEARCH GANG GANGS GENRE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT HOSPITAL HUMAN RIGHTS HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS INTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL AID INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT JOURNALISTS LANDSCAPE LITERATURE LOCAL COMMUNITIES MATERIAL RESOURCES MEDIA MEDICAL STAFF MEDIUMS METAPHOR MONEY LAUNDERING MOVIE NATIONAL LEVEL NEWS STORIES NOVEL NOVELS PERSONAL COMMUNICATION PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES PHOTOGRAPHER PICTURE PICTURES PLAYS POLICE POLICY DECISIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INTERESTS POPULAR CULTURE PORTRAIT PRIVATIZATION PROGRESS PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING RESPECT SCREENPLAY SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL SCIENCES STORYTELLING STREET CHILDREN TELEVISION TRAUMA TRIALS UNDERDEVELOPMENT VICTIMS WAR WEALTH WEAVING authoritative knowledge representation Lewis, David Rodgers, Dennis Woolcock, Michael The Projection of Development : Cinematic Representation as An(other) Source of Authoritative Knowledge? |
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Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6491 |
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Popular representations of development
need to be taken seriously (though not uncritically) as
sources of authoritative knowledge, not least because they
are how most people in the global north (and elsewhere)
encounter development issues. To this end, this paper
presents three clusters of films on development: those
providing uniquely instructive insights, those unhelpfully
eliding and simplifying complex processes, and those that,
with the benefit of historical hindsight, usefully convey a
sense of the prevailing assumptions that guided and
interpreted the efficacy of interventions (whether of a
military, diplomatic or humanitarian nature) at a particular
time and place. The authors argue that the commercial and
technical imperatives governing the production of
contemporary films, and popular films in particular,
generate a highly variable capacity to accurately render key
issues in development, and thereby heighten their potential
to both illuminate and obscure those issues. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
| author |
Lewis, David Rodgers, Dennis Woolcock, Michael |
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Lewis, David Rodgers, Dennis Woolcock, Michael |
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Lewis, David |
| title |
The Projection of Development : Cinematic Representation as An(other) Source of Authoritative Knowledge? |
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The Projection of Development : Cinematic Representation as An(other) Source of Authoritative Knowledge? |
| title_full |
The Projection of Development : Cinematic Representation as An(other) Source of Authoritative Knowledge? |
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The Projection of Development : Cinematic Representation as An(other) Source of Authoritative Knowledge? |
| title_full_unstemmed |
The Projection of Development : Cinematic Representation as An(other) Source of Authoritative Knowledge? |
| title_sort |
projection of development : cinematic representation as an(other) source of authoritative knowledge? |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
| publishDate |
2013 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17875992/projection-development-cinematic-representation-another-source-authoritative-knowledge-projection-development-cinematic-representation-another-source-authoritative-knowledge http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15850 |
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