Domestic servants a ubiquitous feature of Latin American society, they are fully embedded in everyday life and seem invisible in real life and even in visual media. Recently, there has been an...Show moreDomestic servants a ubiquitous feature of Latin American society, they are fully embedded in everyday life and seem invisible in real life and even in visual media. Recently, there has been an increase in the representation of lower classes on screen and domestic servants have more representation, even though it is limited. The attention on the previously ignored is a shift from traditional values and breaks social taboos. The movies La Nana (Sebastian Silva, Chile, 2009) and Que Horas Ela Volta? (Anna Muylaert, Brazil, 2015) focus on these invisible characters and the traditional social oppression of the maid. This thesis provides a cultural study on film narrative and style, covering class, gender and ethnicity differences on the maids in a comparison of La Nana and Que Horas Ela Volta?. These movies aim to present class division in Chile and Brazil with the maid as narrative and make the maid visible. However, this thesis argues that maids are a little visible with their presence in movies, but unheard. The hypothesis is that the movies address the social oppression of domestic servants and although the new identity-forming of lower classes is somewhat broken through, the maid remains a largely invisible, ambiguous, and unrepresented character.Show less
