Representation of Women- Glenda Get Carter

The role Glenda plays in the narrative of Get Carter is to provide sexual pleasure for men in the movie and in the cinema on the orders of men. She also provides information to Jack on orders from Kinnear.
In the scene where Glenda is pouring Jack a drink in Kinnears house, she has important information for Carter teling him that he is in a trap, but she is completely dismissed by the camera and by carter.

Glenda is used in this scene to distract Jack she is a tool to be used by Kinnear, she is owned, she isnt even a person but just a body, in fact Glenda is most probably not this womans real name but a ownership name given to her by Kinnear. She is there to serve Carter drinks, when she is ordered to get a drink she does so without hesitation, this shows how women were seen to be passive and do as they were told. When she makes a mistake she is chastised by Kinnear, her sole purpose is to serve men. In context with society in the 70's Glenda makes woman liberation seem like a myth and instead of being liberated she fulfils the traditional ideologies of women being there to serve men.

In this scene we see Glenda in revealing clothing, her legs and chest being on show for Carter, she pours him a drink and positions herself sitting on the sofa looking at Jack.. Glenda proceeds to tell Jack important information telling Carter that his boss and Kinnear know each other signifying that he is in a trap and being set up, but because she is a woman, she is completely dismissed by Carter and the camera. This is shown through the camera, every shot with Glenda has a man in the frame, this shows that she is always in relation to a man. This signifies that everything she does is dictated by a man. When she begins telling Jack the information the mens diegetic coice is louder than Glendas, even when the men are talking about rubbish and Glenda information could play a huge role in the narrative it is looked over and dismissed. Notice how her voice is often drowned out by the men around her signifying her as a lower status and importance than them. This shows how women were dismissed in the 70's and how it was still a patriarcal society. The one time in the scene that Glenda takes control is when she asks Jack to put her glass on the table, she does this by using her femininity. But she is still working for Kinnear so she is never completely in control, this shows how a woman must always be seen in relation to a man. This film teaches us women were second class in society, but this however has changed im modern cinema as we now have big female lead films like the Hunger games which shows important and powerfull women.