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Colonial scientific-medical documentary films and the legitimization of an ideal state in post-war Spain
Carlos Tabernero1, Isabel Jiménez-Lucena2, Jorge Molero-Mesa3
1Professor, Centre for the History of Science (CEHIC)/Faculty of Medicine/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Research Module C. Carrer de Can Magrans, s.n. 08193 - Barcelona - Spain. carlos.tabernero@uab.cat.
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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