Gloobalizing national domesticity female work and representation in contemporary women's films. 6

By: Tolentino, Rolando B. 4 0 16, [, ] | [, ] |
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Language: Unknown language code Summary language: Unknown language code Original language: Unknown language code Series: ; 46Edition: Description: pors., illusContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: ISSN: 2Other title: 6 []Uniform titles: | | Related works: 1 40 6 []Subject(s): -- 2 -- 0 -- -- | -- 2 -- 0 -- 6 -- | 2 0 -- | -- -- 20 -- | | -- -- Foreign countries. Filipinos employment;Feminism and motion pictures. -- -- 20 -- | -- -- -- 20 -- --Genre/Form: -- 2 -- Additional physical formats: DDC classification: | LOC classification: | | 2Other classification:
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ABSTRACT : Films on the overseas contract worker (OCW) feature diasporic working class women's experiences using the melodramatic genre and featuring iconic stars. The recent foregrounding of OCW characters in film represents not only the states massive deployment of overseas contract work, specifically domestic jobs, for national development, but also a break in womens filmmaking. many of the defining OCW films are directed by women who have sought to dehistoricize gains of earlier feminist filmamking. the insidious popularity of OCW films caters to future and ongoing OCW's 56

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