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.
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Tabernero, C., Jiménez-Lucena, I., & Molero-Mesa, J. (2017). Documentários médicocientíficos coloniais e a legitimação de um estado ideal na Espanha pós-guerra. Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos, 24(2), 349–369. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-59702016005000025
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