title: Colonial scientific-medical documentary films and the legitimization of an ideal state in post-war Spain.
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.
authors.affiliation: Professor, 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.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tabernero
authors.affiliation: Professor, History of Science Studies/Faculty of Medicine/University of Malaga/Campus de Teatinos. Bulevar Louis Pasteur, 32. 29071 - Málaga - Spain. isajimenez@uma.es.
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jiménez-Lucena
authors.affiliation: Professor, CEHIC/Faculty of Medicine/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Research Module C. Carrer de Can Magrans, s.n. 08193 - Barcelona - Spain. jorge.molero@uab.cat.
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Molero-Mesa