Globalizing National Domesticity: Female Work and Representation in Contemporary Women’s Films

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 state's massive deployment of overseas contract work, specifically domestic jobs, for national development, but also a break in women's filmmaking. Many of the defining OCW films are directed by women who have sought to dehistoricize gains of earlier feminist filmmaking. The insidious popularity of OCW films caters to future and ongoing OCWs.

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