Get Carter- Glenda

Set in the 70's, Get Carter represents women as sexual objects that purpose is to serve and entertain men. one character, Glenda, works for Kinear. She is a prostitute, but we know nothing about her or her backstory. she provides  entertain for hetrosexual male audience in the cinema. she also provides sexual pleasure for men on the orders of men. she provides information to jack in orders from Kinear, she is kinears maid.

During the 70's the female liberation took off, this meant that with the new contraceptive pill women had a choice wether they wanted to be a mother or not. However this meant that men could now have sex with several women without getting any of them pregnant. This led to rape, and abusive behaviour towards women. This is reflected through Get Carter, the film exemplifies that the female liberation wasn't success globally. Get Carter shows how women were treated and seen by men.

During the first scene of Glenda we are introduced to her, she sits down angling her body towards Carter connoting that she wants attention of Carter. She asks him to put her glass on the table, she uses her femininity to get Carter to do something for her. She serves the rest of the men with alcohol, when she makes a mistake Kinear tells her off. In this scene, Glenda is a maid, she serves the men and does not question when one of them speak. Glenda is a prostitute, this is probably because she is forced to be rather than through choice. She is a young beautiful woman and is seen as an object in relation to the men. through out the scene, the mens diegetic voices are louder than Glendas,
 her voice is drowned out by the men around her, siginfying her as a lower status and importance than them. Mens voices are more important than a women's voice, which during the 70's men thought was true, they were the 'dominant' sex.

Through out the film, Glenda is always framed with a male. This connotes that she isn't that important to be framed alone. This teaches us that the 70's was a patriarchal society.

Laura Mulvey's theory the 'Male Gaze' states the fact that the representation of women in film and literature as being dominated by a male point of view'. This theory can be applied to Get Carter, the character Glenda in particular