Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Film & New Media; an International Journal
Angaben zur Quelle:
9,1 (2021) 28-50
Keywords:
Fauda (Television program)
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Surveillance in motion pictures
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Neoliberalism in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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Television series History and criticism
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Arab-Israeli conflict Television and the conflict
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Arab-Israeli conflict Motion pictures and the conflict
Abstract:
Fauda, the Israeli TV show that follows a unit of mista'arvim, undercover Israeli operatives who assimilate among the Palestinian population in the West Bank, has been an international hit on Netflix. The show has generated a lot of analysis in the popular press and among scholars, much of it focusing on how it represents Jews and Arabs and whether it offers a fair description of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This article examines the battlefield in which the Israeli agents and their Palestinian counterparts operate not as a site of contesting identities but as a place where brute, physical violence meets advanced cyber technologies as a reflection of the place of modern surveillance technologies in the neoliberal world order.
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