Cantinflear to Politicize. Joke, Medical Order and Political Propaganda in 'El señor doctor' by Cantinflas
Abstract
This article reviews in depth and against the grain the Cantinflas’ film El Señor Doctor. Grounded on a reading from the Slovenian School, we propose a rethinking of the political, social and medical conditions that are reflected in this movie. In this respect, our path tries to clarify some approaches to Cantinflas’s political relationship with the political class of the 1960s in Mexico and the use of his films as an element beyond propaganda in order to establish how it support effective speeches of the PRI’s regime in Mexico. Moreover, we make an analysis of the medical-political discursive structures, which we find focus the Cantinflas’s speeches that approve the institutional dynamics of the PRI in the State's project.
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