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Building Narratives: Cinema and Controversial Events in the 1948 War in Israel
Bruno Szlak
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DOI:10.17265/2159-550X/2026.03.003
University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
The objective of a more extensive research is to explore documentary filmography in Israeli and Palestinian cinema about some of the controversial events that occurred in the process of creating the State of Israel, between November 1947 until 1949. The focus of the research is how the cinema built and presented the events, in this article particularly a Arab village named Tantura. I call controversial those events that, in addition to the facts, gave rise to two major narratives. In these events, in addition to the displacement of thousands of Palestinians, there may have been massacres committed by Jews against Arab populations and vice versa. I am not delving deeper into the subject, which has been the subject of extensive work in Israeli historiography, but to highlight that, in this case, the facts gave rise to disputes over narratives, where the blame for this exodus is made up of either the Israelis who “expelled” the Palestinians from their homes, or Arab governments and the Palestinian leadership are held responsible for encouraging “the flight”. Through film analysis, we seek to understand how meanings are produced in viewers by the narrative and even ideological choices of these productions. Between presences and absences, between editing and assembly, between sounds and silences, it is plausible to take as a premise that given that productions are the result of their time, they mirror an intentionality in narrative construction.
Cinema, Israel, Palestine, conflict
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