Homeland : un antidote à la guerre contre le terrorisme ?

TV Series

关键词: Homeland;    War on Terror;    9/11;    Bush George W.;    Islam;    islamophobia;   

DOI  :  10.4000/tvseries.1284

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article investigates the way TV series Homeland represents and remedies the War on Terror. Because of the culture of fear that was developed by the Bush administration after 9/11, many Americans have suffered from visual and perceptive disorders. In that regard, we contend that Homeland helps us regain our capacity to see through three strategies. First, the series confronts us with apocalyptic scenes picturing terrorist attacks that conjure up the 9/11 attacks. In so doing, it invites us to exorcise the original trauma and teaches us how to defuse and live with terror. Second, by offering types of “enemies within” which are sometimes far from the widespread Arab-Islamic terrorist archetype, Homeland questions the official vision of the (hi)story of the War on Terror and highlights a probable American responsibility in the emergence of terrorist attacks on US soil. Third, the show tries to twist our stereotyped, negative vision of Islam that was also inherited from the culture of fear of the 2000s. However, such an enterprise is not without contradiction due to Homeland’s inherent ideological instability.

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