Maid-in-Singapore: Representing and consuming foreign domestic workers in Singapore cinema

Asian Ethnicity

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-154

  Gomes, Catherine ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

class; ethnicity; film critic; film reception; foreign domestic workers; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855442342     PISSN: 14631369     EISSN: 14692953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2011.571834     Document Type: Article

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