A Critical History of Health Films in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond

Shmidt, Victoria; Kaser, Karl

A Critical History of Health Films in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond Victoria Shmidt and Karl Kaser - London Taylor & Francis; Routledge 2024 - 285 Seiten - Routledge Open History .

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Introduction: Nonlinear historicizing as a method for studying health films. Part 1: Child and nation in the focus of rescue-mission health films. 1. The interwar obsession with family: Eugenic pathos vs. humanistic skepticism. 2. Collective care vs. the "backward" family in Jak Vasâicek prisel k nohâam. 3. The institutionalized child as a precondition for the healthy nation in the films of Mladen Sirola. 4. Central and Eastern European film in the search for deconstructing the institutionalized child. Part 2: Health films for teaching children 5. The complex legacy of early animated health films in Eastern Europe. 6. Bacilâinek (1922) on the stage of the national and global orders of health security. 7. Health films for children: Between cultural reciprocity and popular scientism. Part 3: Men and women in the focus of health films. 8. Health films as Bildungsroman for teaching men. 9. Masculinity in health films for the rural population. 10. Health films in the service of eugenic surveillance over women. Part 4: Health films for the interwar periphery. 11. Stâin ve svetle as the first health film for the periphery: The birth of the canon. 12. Ikina sudbina and Dobro za zlo: Extending the canon of health films to the Muslim periphery. 13. Films of the National Tuberculosis Association: Rooting health films for the periphery in the racial hierarchies of the interwar United States. 14. Conclusion: Health film as fantasy and eve

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