Hysterical devices and hypervisibility: aesthetic transfers between the 'fin-de-siêcle' medical imagery and the avant-garde

Authors

  • Paula Arantzazu Ruiz Castilla-La Mancha University Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2019.v2i19.6644

Keywords:

Film, Photography, Medical Film, Medicine in the Arts, Archive, Visual Culture.

Abstract

Archive and the body are inextricably linked when new optical devices for recording and reproducing images emerge in the middle of the 19th century. Although there are various areas and institutions that will consolidate their power from the disciplinary use of the archive, among other technologies of individual and social control, it is the medical institution and more specifically the neuropsychiatric clinic where the image will help to legitimize some practices and impose some discourses about the normal and about the pathological in relation to the body that will transform the epistemological and visual paradigms of the modern era. Likewise, in a context of hypervisibility and new mediations, we should research about the role of the different agents involved in the alterations of the finisecular medical imagery, since the images made inside the walls circulate, proliferate and extend outside the medical environment due to new mechanical devices such as photography and cinematography.

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Author Biography

Paula Arantzazu Ruiz, Castilla-La Mancha University

Castilla-La Mancha University

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Published

2019-07-22

How to Cite

Ruiz, P. A. (2019). Hysterical devices and hypervisibility: aesthetic transfers between the ’fin-de-siêcle’ medical imagery and the avant-garde. Fotocinema. Revista científica De Cine Y fotografía, 19, 19–44. https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2019.v2i19.6644

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