El cuerpo social enfermo: medicina y autoridad en dos películas creadas después de la dictadura en Argentina.
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2024
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Haverford College. Department of Spanish
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In my thesis, I explore the use of medicine in Argentinian cinema for retelling events from the Argentinian dictatorship and forming political criticisms. I seek to explore the metaphor of the "cuerpo enfermo social", or the sick social body, and see how the directors of these movies I am studying(Darse cuenta 1984, Hombre mirando al sudeste 1987) invert the original meaning behind this metaphor. To do so, I use the theoretical doctrines of the medical humanities, panopticism, and deconstruction to study how the movies portray the value of life and question authority. In the end, I conclude that the movies show the military dictatorship as the virus of the sick social body, causing the societal devaluation of life and abusing their authority to oppress and remove the autonomy of the Argentinian people.