The Living Body and the Corpse—Israeli Documentary Cinema and the Intifadah

According to the mimetic paradigm approach within trauma studies, the trauma is still at the repression stage and has not reached that of post-trauma, which involves recognition that trauma has occurred.4 In contrast to fictional narrative cinema, Israeli documentary cinema deals with the Intifadah (both the occupation and the terror attacks) in an almost obsessive fashion.5 Dozens of documentary films have been screened, particularly on the local Discovery channel, in cinematheques, and in Israeli film festivals over the past four years, and more and more such films are still being made.