Anatomia di Fauda. Serialità, realismo e trauma nella fiction televisiva israeliana

Fauda, the Israeli serial drama, has garnered global recognition and acclaim for its realistic portrayal of life within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This article argues that realism in Fauda, as well as in contemporary Israeli television fiction more broadly, does not emerge as a response to a...

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Main Author: Iside Gjergji
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Language:English
Published: SHARE Press 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://serena.atcult.it/index.php/funes/article/view/10861
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description Fauda, the Israeli serial drama, has garnered global recognition and acclaim for its realistic portrayal of life within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This article argues that realism in Fauda, as well as in contemporary Israeli television fiction more broadly, does not emerge as a response to an imperative necessity to comprehend reality. Rather, it is rooted in the creation of familiar, predictable, and ‘inhabitable’ universes aimed at invoking a sense of frequent déjà vu among viewers, both in terms of content and aesthetics. Essentially, what is construed as realistic aligns with prevailing collective imaginaries or offers a reassuring explanation for underlying collective traumas. The lack of disrupting or unsettling (unheimlich) elements in the Israeli serial drama unconsciously serves to perpetuate and consolidate on-screen/off-screen social traumas. Fredric Jameson’s dialectical approach, capable of linking external reality and narrative realism, will be the method adopted in this brief analysis.
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spelling doaj-art-2cd53453801b4114b46462e6b8fe42a52024-12-21T20:50:50ZengSHARE PressFunes2532-67322024-12-017210.6093/2532-6732/10861Anatomia di Fauda. Serialità, realismo e trauma nella fiction televisiva israelianaIside Gjergji0Università degli Studi eCampus Fauda, the Israeli serial drama, has garnered global recognition and acclaim for its realistic portrayal of life within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This article argues that realism in Fauda, as well as in contemporary Israeli television fiction more broadly, does not emerge as a response to an imperative necessity to comprehend reality. Rather, it is rooted in the creation of familiar, predictable, and ‘inhabitable’ universes aimed at invoking a sense of frequent déjà vu among viewers, both in terms of content and aesthetics. Essentially, what is construed as realistic aligns with prevailing collective imaginaries or offers a reassuring explanation for underlying collective traumas. The lack of disrupting or unsettling (unheimlich) elements in the Israeli serial drama unconsciously serves to perpetuate and consolidate on-screen/off-screen social traumas. Fredric Jameson’s dialectical approach, capable of linking external reality and narrative realism, will be the method adopted in this brief analysis. https://serena.atcult.it/index.php/funes/article/view/10861
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