Desiring Domestic Workers in "The Maid" and "The Desert Bride"

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• dc.contributor.author Osborne, Elizabeth
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-17T08:47:36Z
• dc.date.available 2024-10-17T08:47:36Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.date.modified 2020-12-14T16:58:55Z
• dc.description.abstract This article analyzes the representation of feminine desires in two Southern Conefilms, The Maid (La nana, Sebastián Silva, Chile, 2009) and The Desert Bride (La novia del desierto, Valeria Pivato and Cecilia Atán, Argentina/Chile, 2017), that feature female protagonists who have worked as live-in domestic employees for the same families for over twenty years. Both films eschew traditional depictions of domestic workers as either servile or aggressive to instead present these women as desiring and desirable subjects, thereby questioning how desire and desirability are determined by dominant social norms of femininity predicated on privileges of age, class, and race. Following Rosi Braidotti’s work on nomadism, the article examines desire, as depicted in these films, as a fluid notion that emphasizes transformation and the process of becoming. Ultimately the desires that the protagonists experience in horizontal, affective relationships lead them to embrace newfound independence outside of employment.
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• dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/361128
• dc.identifier 2604-9821
• dc.identifier 10.31009/cc.2020.v8.i15.04
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/62266
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2020, Vol. 8, Núm. 15 (2020): , p. 41-59
• dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2020, Vol 8, No 15 (2020): Female Desire in Film: Theories, Methods, Case Studies, p. 41-59
• dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2020, Vol. 8, Núm. 15 (2020): , p. 41-59
• dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/361128/470741
• dc.rights.uri Drets d'autor 2020 Comparative Cinema
• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• dc.rights.uri info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.source.uri RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)
• dc.subject.other Domestic Labor
• dc.subject.other Desire
• dc.subject.other The Maid
• dc.subject.other The Desert Bride
• dc.subject.other Chilean Cinema
• dc.subject.other Argentine Cinema
• dc.title Desiring Domestic Workers in "The Maid" and "The Desert Bride"
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion