A critical history of health films in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond / by Shmidt, Victoria R., Kaser, Karl, 1954-2022

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : non-linear historicizing as a method for studying health films -- The interwar obsession with family : eugenic pathos vs. humanistic skepticism -- Collective care vs. the "backward" family in Jak Vašíček přišel k nohám -- The institutionalized child as a precondition for the healthy nation in the films of Mladen Širola -- Central and Eastern European film in the search for deconstructing the institutionalized child -- The complex legacy of early animated health films in Eastern Europe -- Bacilínek (1922) on the stage of the national and global orders of health security -- Health films for children : between cultural reciprocity and popular scientism -- Health films as Bildungsroman for teaching men -- Masculinity in health films for the rural population -- Health films in the service of eugenic surveillance over women -- Sion ve světle as the first health film for the periphery : the birth of the canon -- Ikina sudbina and Dobro za zlo : extending the canon of health films to the Muslim periphery -- Films of the National Tuberculosis Association : rooting health films for the periphery in the racial hierarchies of the interwar United States.…”
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