Representations of Women-Get Carter: Glenda (the 'male gaze')

According to Laura Mulvey the representation of women in film is being dominated by a male point of view. Her belief is that the world is a patriarchy and that man have the 'active' roles and women the 'passive'. She says that the role of a female character in a narrative serves two purposes, as an erotic object for the characters within the film and as an erotic object for the spectator within the audience.

I can prove that the male gaze exists through the clip of Glenda in the car with Jack. During this scene we 'gaze' at Glenda through the eyes of Carter. Throught the scene we see close ups of Glendas body parts her chest, legs, back, face, hands and backside all from the male point of view from Jack. This shows that Glenda is being objectified and is being seen as a sexual object by Jack, the way that she is being 'gazed' at proves the first point in Laura Mulveys theory, that women are an erotic object for the characters within the film.

The montage juxtaposes the car with the woman, they are both objects that serve specific functions, Glenda is there to provide sexual pleasure for men, she is serving orders from Kinnear. Kinnear owns her sexuality and her body, it was thought that the contraceptive pill would allow a woman to contorl