TY - JOUR
T1 - Colonial scientificmedical documentary films and the legitimization of an ideal state in post-war Spain
AU - Tabernero, Carlos
AU - Jiménez-Lucena, Isabel
AU - Molero-Mesa, Jorge
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, projects HAR2009-13389-C03-01 and HAR2009-13389-C03-03. We are particularly grateful to Trinidad del Río, from the Spanish Film Archive, and Pere Ortín, from We Are Here! Films, for their help with this research. We would also like to specially thank Simon Schaffer, Agustí Nieto-Galán, and Oliver Hochadel for their invaluable help and critical comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - © 2017, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz. All rights reserved. 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 technoscientific 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.
AB - © 2017, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz. All rights reserved. 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 technoscientific 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.
KW - Franco’s regime
KW - Inclusion-exclusion
KW - Medical-colonial films
KW - Medicalization
KW - Scientific discourse
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U2 - 10.1590/s0104-59702016005000025
DO - 10.1590/s0104-59702016005000025
M3 - Article
C2 - 27982278
SN - 0104-5970
VL - 24
SP - 349
EP - 369
JO - Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos
JF - Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos
IS - 2
ER -