Glenda

Glenda

In the film Get Carter we see that Glenda is used as a way for cater to get information. In the scene where kinnear is playing a card game with a group of men we see that when Glenda tells Carter what see knows we hear that the men’s voices are heard over hers, this tells us that even though she has something important to say her voice is not being listen to. This also links in with then term that women where to be see and not heard which was a well-known term in the 1960s and 170s. Glenda is viewed as object to be used by men and especially Kinnear and carter, we see Kinnear uses her to seduce cater while cater uses her to gather information

We also see that through out the film women are denied a P.O.V, which means that we are never able to see the world from a women’s perspective we only see it from a mans. This tells us that because we only see it from a mans perspective then the world is clearly dominated by men’s while the women are not even viewed a as human being, instead they are see as a object that men can use for anything they want.  When we see the car scene we see that e only see body shots of Glenda, we never see any body shots of Carter. We see that while women are sexualised in the film men are not this is mainly because the film is not appealing to women in the audience it is simply only appealing to the men in the audience.

We also see that in the film there is no sexual pleasure for women in the film, which tell us that the women is on viewed or considered as a person with sexual desires they are only their to offer pleasure to men. The film represents how women were viewed by men in the 1970, women where seen a nothing more then a object that is used to give a man pleasure they where not viewed as anything more but a possession of men

There is also the theory of the male gaze which is the audience are made to view the film from the perspective of a man. As a result of this women in film are not signifying real women but rather as a view of women from a male perspective.