Domestic Labor in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elizabeth Osborne, Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro.
• Editors: Osborne, Elizabeth; Ruiz-Alfaro, Sofía
• Contents: Introduction: A Brief History of Female Domestic Labor in Latin American Film; Elizabeth Osborne and Sofía Ruiz-AlfaroSection I: Affect and Affection1. Indigestive Intakes: Affection, Food, and Power in Recent Latin American Films on Domestic Work; Karina Elizabeth Vázquez2. De-familiarizing the Maid: Alicia Scherson's Play (2005); Susana Domingo Amestoy3. Partial Affection: The Place(s) of Female Domestic Workers in Recent Brazilian Cinema; Carlos Cortez Minchillo Section II: Spatial Divisions and Borders4. Dangerous Backyards: Domestic Labor and the Erosion of Gender Hierarchies in La Sirga and La tierra y la sombra; Marcelo Carosi5. ¡Écheme y arreglamos! Domestic Work, Private Life and Public Space in Argentine Cinema; Natalia Polito6. Neplantleras de la frontera: Cinematic Representations of la doméstica in the US-Mexico Border; Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro7. 'Yo no nací para amar': Rendering Visible Affective Labor, Biocontrol, and the Mexican Female Domestic Employee in ¿Qué le dijiste a Dios?; Olivia CosentinoSection III. Empathy and Agency8. Domestic Workers and the Axes of Affect: New Home Layouts in Recent Latin American Films; Milton Fernando Gonzalez-Rodriguez9. Moving Beyond Maternalism and Mimicry? Domestic Service in Cama adentro, La nana, and Hilda; Elizabeth Osborne10. Tales of the Second Side: Otherness and the Identities of the Brazilian Maid in Domésticas-O Filme and Doméstica; Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira11. From Alterity to Self: A New Poetics of Domestic Service in Recent Argentine Films; María Julia Rossi.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (242 pages)
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching; Ethnology--Latin America; Social Science -- General; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Performing Arts -- General; Cultural studies; Film, TV & radio; Gender studies: women; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; Motion pictures, American; Culture; Gender; Motion pictures; Women
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030332969
• Related ISBNs: 9783030332952
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