Get Carter-Representation of women

How are Women Represented in the Films you have studied for this Topic?

Get Carter is a film of revenge, it follows a man named Jack Carter and his search for his brothers Killer. On Carters journey he meets a lot of women all of whom are treated and looked differently to men, this reflects the social issues of the Swinging Sixties and how men treated women.

One of the women that Carter meets on his travels is Edna. Edna owns the home that Carter sleeps and stays in over the days that he is looking for the killer. Edna’s only has one role in the film and that is to look after Carter while he stays in her house, even though at times she doesn’t want to. Through out the whole film Edna is only shown indoors and in her own home, this is how women were seen by men in the swinging sixties, they were seen as being very domestic and house bound looking after the home while the husband is out being ‘active’. There is a scene during the film that shows a couple of men, including Carter, enter Edna’s home without permission from her, after the men go upstairs Carter Tells “Edna to Make us a nice cup of tea”, Edna didn’t like this but no matter how much she argued, she ended up making the cups of tea, Carter even rewards her for her trouble, like a dog, he says “I might even let you watch”. As well as making the cups of tea and food, Edna also provided Carter with sexual pleasure, this is also how the women where seen, as sexual objects that the men could ‘dispose of later’.

Glenda was a woman that Carter met when he first met with Kinnear. Glenda is seen as an object/ Kinnear’s property and he uses her to seduce and sleep with Carter. In this scene (when we first see Glenda) we see that the Glenda is surrounded by men, this is the same through out the whole scene and every shot, her voice is also drowned out from all the men’s voices every time she speaks.