Title |
Colonial scientific-medical documentary films and the legitimization of an ideal state in post-war Spain
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Published in |
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, December 2016
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DOI | 10.1590/s0104-59702016005000025 |
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Authors |
Carlos Tabernero, Isabel Jiménez-Lucena, Jorge Molero-Mesa |
Abstract |
This paper explores the role of film and medical-health practices and discourses in the building and legitimating strategies of Franco's fascist regime in Spain. The analysis of five medical-colonial documentary films produced during the 1940s explores the relationship between mass media communication practices and techno-scientific knowledge production, circulation and management processes. These films portray a non-problematic colonial space where social order is articulated through scientific-medical practices and discourses that match the regime's need to consolidate and legitimize itself while asserting the inclusion-exclusion dynamics involved in the definition of social prototypes through processes of medicalization. |
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