Le chaos des subjectivités : Fauda
The Israeli TV show Fauda depicts the daily life of the mista’aravim (literally « the Arabized »), a special force of the Israeli army whose mission is to operate incognito behind enemy lines by disguising themselves as Palestinian civilians. Produced in 2015 by two veterans of this unit, Avi Issach...
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| description | The Israeli TV show Fauda depicts the daily life of the mista’aravim (literally « the Arabized »), a special force of the Israeli army whose mission is to operate incognito behind enemy lines by disguising themselves as Palestinian civilians. Produced in 2015 by two veterans of this unit, Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz, this TV shows is a global it. It is acclaimed as well as heavily criticized. In March 2018, the movement « Boycott, Divestment, Sanction », aiming at pressuring Israel to stop its illegal settlements in the West Bank, asked Netflix to no longer broadcast a TV show that is legitimizing « war crimes ». Should TV shows accurately reflect the political realities they deal with? Drawing on the concepts of problematization and fictional effect, I first analyze how Fauda fits into the history of the Israeli representations of the IDF. I argue that Fauda represents an americanization of the IDF’s representation, borrowing in particular from the aesthetics of western. I then question the accusations made against Fauda. For its detractors, it offers an « oriented » vision of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Its creators, on the contrary, claim its « authenticness », based on their experience as veterans. This argument is contractor with their own declarations, when responding to critics they argue that Fauda is merely a fiction. Finally, I propose two avenues to prevent the ethical dilemmas posed by the representation of a sensitive political situation: the contribution of the social sciences, and the promotion of what I call a « participative naturalism ». |
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| spelling | doaj.art-51a087ddbce14b8c926d36637829b5eb2022-12-22T03:17:05ZengGroupe de Recherche Identités et CulturesTV Series2266-09092020-06-011710.4000/tvseries.4226Le chaos des subjectivités : FaudaAmélie FéreyThe Israeli TV show Fauda depicts the daily life of the mista’aravim (literally « the Arabized »), a special force of the Israeli army whose mission is to operate incognito behind enemy lines by disguising themselves as Palestinian civilians. Produced in 2015 by two veterans of this unit, Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz, this TV shows is a global it. It is acclaimed as well as heavily criticized. In March 2018, the movement « Boycott, Divestment, Sanction », aiming at pressuring Israel to stop its illegal settlements in the West Bank, asked Netflix to no longer broadcast a TV show that is legitimizing « war crimes ». Should TV shows accurately reflect the political realities they deal with? Drawing on the concepts of problematization and fictional effect, I first analyze how Fauda fits into the history of the Israeli representations of the IDF. I argue that Fauda represents an americanization of the IDF’s representation, borrowing in particular from the aesthetics of western. I then question the accusations made against Fauda. For its detractors, it offers an « oriented » vision of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Its creators, on the contrary, claim its « authenticness », based on their experience as veterans. This argument is contractor with their own declarations, when responding to critics they argue that Fauda is merely a fiction. Finally, I propose two avenues to prevent the ethical dilemmas posed by the representation of a sensitive political situation: the contribution of the social sciences, and the promotion of what I call a « participative naturalism ».http://journals.openedition.org/tvseries/4226FaudafictionrealismIsrael/Palestine |
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