Get Carter Anna - Liam Tomkins

Another character in Get Carter is Anna. Carter uses Anna as a sexual object, this is her only role in the entire film. Not only is Anna positioned as a sexual object for Carter, she is also positioned as a sexual object by the spectator. Anna fills the entire screen with a series of close-up shots, each focusing on a different part of her body. This means that the audience is able to depict her as just a sexual object and nothing else. She is also filmed in a way that suggests she is being watched, this provides pleasure for the male audiences because it is filmed in a way to make you feel as though you are there.

Anna’s sexual pleasure is always dictated and controlled by a man. She only receives sexual pleasure when Carter tells her. It then stops when Fletcher walks into the room, showing that she is not seen as being her own sexual being and is instead there for the pleasure of men in both the film and the audience. This also shows us that the effects of the ‘Swinging Sixties’ didn’t really have an influence on how men treated and viewed women, meaning that female liberation was yet to be successful.

Anna is passive and Carter is active. Carter tells Anna to do things and she obeys without a second thought, showing that women were depicted as being obedient and doing what men ask them to do without questioning it, even if they do not want to. Carter is able to pleasure Anna using just his voice, showing his power over her. This also depicts how men viewed women in the 1970s, they were seen as a lower status and that they should serve men.

Anna is represented using the ‘Male Gaze’, established in Laura Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema theory. From this we can see that Anna is shown in a way to appeal to male audience members.