The Changing Nature of Modernization Discourses in Documentary Films.

Argument Franco's fascist regime in Spain (1939-1975) offers the possibility of exploring the complex relationship between media communication practices and the processes of production, circulation, and management of knowledge. The regime persistently used film, and later on television, as indoctrination and disciplining devices. These media thus served to shape the regime's representation, which largely relied on the generation of positive attitudes of adherence to the rulers through people's submission and obedience to experts. This article examines the changing nature of modernization discourses and practices, as a fundamental element of the regime's propaganda strategies, and as portrayed in documentaries produced under its rule. The rhetoric of modernization involved an explicit deficit model of knowledge management, which aimed at legitimating the regime's deeds and policies in its first decades, as we shall see regarding colonial-medical documentaries produced for the official newsreel in the 1940s. However, the focus of such rhetoric, despite its enduring political aims, had to somehow open up as the relationship between experts and non-experts changed, both in epistemological and practical terms, such as in wildlife documentary films produced for television in the 1970s, the regime's last decade.

Colonial scientific-medical documentary films and the legitimization of an ideal state in post-war Spain / Documentários médico-científicos coloniais e a legitimação de um estado ideal na Espanha pós-guerra

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.

Resumo O artigo explora o papel de práticas e discursos em saúde e cinema na construção e legitimação das estratégias do regime fascista de Franco na Espanha. A análise de cinco documentários médicos coloniais produzidos na década de 1940 explora a relação entre as práticas de comunicação de massa e os processos de produção, circulação e administração do conhecimento técnico-científico. Tais filmes retratam um espaço colonial não problemático onde a ordem social é articulada por meio de práticas e discursos médico-científicos que atendem à necessidade de consolidar e legitimar o regime, validando a dinâmica de inclusão-exclusão envolvida na representação de protótipos sociais por meio de processos de medicalização.

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

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.

Construcción de un modelo de predicción para la propiedad farmacocinética excreción urinaria en fármacos orgánicos / Construction of a prediction model for the pharmaco-kinetic property in organic drugs

Se construyó un modelo con los momentos espectrales de la matriz de adyacencia entre aristas ponderadas del grafo que representa a la estructura molecular, para predecir la propiedad farmacocinética excreción urinaria en fármacos orgánicos, utilizando la red neuronal artificial. Para ello, 150 fármacos orgánicos fueron divididos aleatoriamente en dos conjuntos: uno de entrenamiento con 135 miembros, empleado para el aprendizaje de la red neuronal; y otro de prueba con 15, no presentado a la red en el entrenamiento, para medir la capacidad de predicción. El mejor modelo de red neuronal es capaz de predecir la propiedad con un error cuadrático medio de 5,85 y 9,88 para los conjuntos de entrenamiento y prueba, respectivamente((AU))