representation of women

In Get Carter women are represented in a typical, passive, domestic and traditional way even though it was made after the ‘swingin sixties’ a time when women were not only sexually liberated but also legislatively liberated due to the Equal Pay Act and the Sex Discrimination Act.                                                              For example Glenda is simply a catalyst and used as a pawn by men, she provide information for jack on behalf of another male, Kinnear. And when she is no loner useful she is discarded. This is illustrated in the gambling scene when the male character drowns her diegetic voice out, this shows she is completely ignored and her opinion is invalid.  Also whenever she is in the camera shot a male(s) accompanies her. She is also fetishized as she is wearing provocative clothing.

            Laura Mulvey published Visual Pleasure And The Narrative Cinema in 1975. She famously came up with the ‘male gaze’ theory, which says that women are represented frim a heterosexual male perspective (male gaze) and serve two purposes in he narrative, as an erotic object for the character in the film and a erotic object for the viewers.           

            We see high validity in Laura Mulveys ‘male gaze’ theory with Anna