How do the representation of women in Get Carter reflect the time in which it was made?

How do the representation of women in Get Carter reflect the time in which it was made?

In Get Carter women are represented as passive characters. With Edna when she tries to insert her authority and says she will call the police, Carter overrides her by asking her to make tea. This not only portrays how she doesn’t really add to the story but this scene coupled with the post coital one where she asks if Carter wants breakfast shoes how she occupies the traditional female role. Another woman who is seen as passive is Glenda who only broadens the story. She is catalyst Jacks revenge as he finds his niece in her adult films; however, she only puts them on display on Kinnear’s behalf as he uses her as a pawn.

The three main women, Glenda, Anna and Edna have all had a more sexual relation with Carter. In the scene where Anna (played by Britt Eckland, a model) is on the phone to Carter, the frame is shot between her legs, which are a lot more intimate; she also obeys all of Jack’s orders. Because Jack is on the other side of the country, the audience take soul pleasure in the scene, as she is topless. This complies with Mulvey’s ‘Male Gaze Theory’ as she is only seen as a sexual object for the men of 70’s society; she serves the two purposes of ‘an erotic object for the character and an erotic object for the audience’.

All the women are disregarded after they have been used. After the phone scene with Anna, she is never seen again. After the men walk in on Carter and Edna she is not in the shot again, after Glenda is used, she is killed off.