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From Holocaust Victimization to Construction of Sovereignty Image: A Critical Study on Fauda

This article analyses the series Fauda, which portrays the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one of the longest-running conflicts in international politics and the subject of numerous initiatives by the international community. The paper also focuses on series’ narrative based on the conflict’s political dynamics. The main aim of the study is to analyze uses with metonymic abstraction, Israel’s security-oriented strategy narrative and its attempt to legitimize its claim to sovereignty over Palestinian territories and to seek an answer to the question of why Palestinian side is transformed into the passive and trouble-making party. In this context, Fauda is a field of expression where social struggles are reproduced, and the discourse of sovereignty is appropriated in favor of Israel. The innocence defined in Holocaust films evolves into a prevented chaos in Fauda. While humanism is a quality that purifies human being from violence, in Fauda, it is necessary to secure humanist violence.

From Holocaust Victimization to Construction of Sovereignty Image A Critical
 

 

 

 

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TV series/movies offer different ways of seeing the audience and make them participate in the imaginary events. The movie’s atmosphere allows the audience to see the events, objects, and characters from different perspectives. At the same time, it positions the audience within the imagination shaped by the film. The audience perceives this imagined world as new and adds it to themselves. Televisual seeing allows both inside and outside, that is, both the formation or the discussion of a value and “seeing” the phenomena of reality in the world we have seen before in a new and different way. The film functions as a mechanism that interprets the various aspects of a period and transforms them into an allegory. Therefore, the film transforms moments from social relations, conflicts, and the human condition into visions and narratives. Although historical events, persons, cultural norms, and other characteristics of a particular society are accurate, the film represents a reality mixed with fiction. The documentary genre that deals with reality is also represented and constructed within cinematic mapping.1 Films are the vital element of truth and fantasy created through the image of the last two centuries. They are rooted in the century’s social, cultural, and political dimensions. In this context, where reality and fantasy are mixed, the Fauda series constructs a new reality while imitating reality, and produces fantasy with a real dimension.

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