Get Carter - Glenda

Glenda – Kineer’s House
The character of Glenda is first introduced in Kineer’s house at the beckon of Kineer. She rises from a lackadaisical position on a couch to serve Jack alcohol. When she does that wrong, Kineer admonishes her. This shows how she is owned by Kineer and makes no attempt to stand up to him as that would mean putting herself in a dangerous situation as she survives on the status provided by working for Kineer – refuting the myth that female liberation occurred in the 1960s. This reinforces the ‘visual pleasure and the narrative cinema’ theory by Laura Mulvey that society is a patriarchal and dominated by men.


After this, she uses her femininity to seduce Jack and is constantly whispering in his ear and stroking him with her hands. She talks about relevant information to Jack yet the male diegetic voices in the scene (talking about their card game) are louder and often cut over Glenda’s voice. At the same time as this, Glenda is always sharing the frame with male characters even though the male characters often get the frame to themselves; this accents her revealing clothing and seductive properties. Again, this confirms Laura Mulvey’s theory that women in cinema are erotic objects for the characters and also for the audience because we are positioned in a way that we cannot view her otherwise.

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