Un recorrido por el acervo filmográfico de la Secretaría de Salud de México

Abstract

Since the late 1920s, cinema has been a popular tool in health education in Mexico; over the years, it functioned as an efficient means of propaganda through which the State and public health authorities promoted their projects and re-created the image of a healthy, modern country on screen. The article presents the results of an effort to recover and catalogue the Mexican Department of Health's film archive, an endeavor that allowed for the reconstruction of a list of national and international films screened and produced in Mexico from 1943 to 1960, especially from the United States.

Teenage Pregnancy and Neoliberal Subjectivity in Mexican Television Series La Rosa de Guadalupe

“…Entertainment productions have often been the vehicle for deliberate public health messaging in Mexico, including Disney films about prevention and hygiene through the Institute of InterAmerican Affairs in the mid‐twentieth century (Gudiño Cejudo, 2012), and media campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s to encourage smaller families and thus minimise population growth (Soto Laveaga, 2007). Such media campaigns were communicated through popular television and radio telenovelas, and did not rely on disseminating information about contraceptives alone.…”