Colonial scientific-medical documentary films and the legitimization of an ideal state in post-war Spain

摘要

This paper explores the role of film and medical-health practices and discourses in the building and legitimating strategies of Francoa??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 regimea??s need to consolidate and legitimize itself while asserting the inclusion-exclusion dynamics involved in the definition of social prototypes through processes of medicalization.