Overview: The first book-length study of the representation of female domestic labor in Latin American film.Includes analyses of films from Mexico, Colombia, Perú, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil.Explores how figu.This volume explores the character of the domestic worker in twenty-first century Latin American cinema and analyzes how recent filmic representations of the housemaid question the marginalization of domestic servants, in particular women, by making them the center of their narratives, their families, and society. The essays in this book posit the female domestic worker as an emergent s
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