Lone wolf cut female serial#

Interestingly, a traumatic excess is inscribed on both male and female bodies as each series rewrites its own society's myth: the binding of Isaac in the Israeli Prisoners of War and Joan of Arc in the American Homeland. Thus, while both series involve a ritual of scapegoating as a means of resolving conflict, each reflects and produces its own repertoire of reality ('realemes'). The reception of these texts incorporates their meaning as reconstructed by their publics. Both series therefore directly address their audiences and relate to the public sphere outside the studio. The first season was broadcast in post-9/11 America while American soldiers were still fighting in Iraq.

Homeland, on the other hand, places centre stage a female CIA operative (Claire Danes) who suffers from bipolar disorder. The series was broadcast at a time when intensive negotiations were underway for the release of three IDF soldiers who had been kidnapped. Prisoners of War tells the story of three soldierswho are kidnapped, held captive for 17 years and suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder on their return home. The focalization of the various plots and sub-plots as well as their reception spaces are different however. In these serializations of the thriller genre, narratives of paranoia and conspiracy render invisible terror visible on the screen.

Lone wolf cut female serial#

Both serial dramas revolve around prisoners of war who have returned home and their families, intelligence agency operatives and terror organizations operating behind the scenes. The Israeli series Prisoners of War (Hatufim, Keshet, Israel, Gideon Raff, 2009-2011) and Homeland (Showtime, US 2011-2013 developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa based on the Israeli series with Gideon Raff as one of the producers) is a special case of hypertextuality (Genette 1982).