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

The representations of women in Get Carter reflects the time in which it was made by how women are treated in the film.
In 1975 Laura Mulvey said that there are two roles for women in a film; as an erotic object for the characters within the film and as an erotic object for the spectator within the audience. This point is proven through the role of Anna played by Britt Ekland. Throughout Anna's sex scene she is only there to pleasure the audience as she is an erotic object for the spectator and nothing more. The close ups of her and that fact that her face is obscured hows that no one wants to get to know and empathise with the character but instead see her as a desirable sexual object to look at. The fact that Anna is tightly framed shows that she is trapped and controlled by all the male characters around her. The camera shots are very obscured and controversial as we are placed between her legs and very close to her body, this appeals to the male desires to see her naked body and reinforces the patriarchal view that we have in society, as a spectator in the audience we are invading Anna's privacy and there is nothing she can do about it. Again the fact that her face is obscured shows us that she lacks an identity and is only there to serve one purpose which would be to pleasure the men within the film and the men in the audience. The fact that there is no female gaze suggests to us that culture is very male dominated and this scene in the film reflects how women are viewed from a male point of view in the swinging 60s.

The role of Glenda is very clear in the film and her purpose is purely to please men, which reflects the time in which the film was made very well. Glenda acts flirty and seductive so she able to get mens attention and uses her feminine qualities to attract men as she's seen as a sexual object, this is show through the clothes she wears, the way she talk and the shots she is framed in. She is always shot in a very seductive manner in a way that is able to show off her feminine assets like her legs and cleavage, this is done to appeal the the male audience as they want to see her naked and she's an object of sexual desire. the first shot we see Glenda in she is isolated from the camera, she is framed right in the corner surrounded by men and this is to show that women are dominated by men, especially back in the 60s/70s. The next shot we se her in she becomes exposed and we are able to see her all dressed up and showing off her legs, this is done to appeal the male audience as they want to look at her. When Glenda is talking her voice is always overpowered by the male voices the show she is weaker than them both physically and mentally as they're seen as superior. She is depicted as stupid and drunk making her seem weak, which is typically afflicted with the female sex. Every time Carter talks to her she acts childish insinuating to us that Carter does not take her seriously. In each frame she is always surrounded by men again stating to us that the swinging 60s was a very patriarchal society and men dominated women. When Glenda dies the audience don't sympathise with her as she never had an identity, meaning we could identify with her as she has been dehumanised to become an object of sexual pleasure and nothing more so when she finally died, we just dismissed the fact and moved on from her.

Edna has very specific roles in the film and they are; to provide a place to stay for Carter; to provide assistance to him and provide food an water and also she is purely there as an erotic object for him.