The Cook, The Thief, His Wife,

Peter Greenaway’s controversial film, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover deals with infidelity, gluttony, and an insatiable desire for appetite. Through these elements, characters are brought to power as well as condemned to humility. This movie uses Charles Bressler’s idea of the ‘objective co-relative’ and the way that it is used to imply an emotion or thought that a character is maintaining and brings it to the reader in a …

…An Introduction to Theory and Practice. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1999, 1994. Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing about Film. 3rd ed. New York, Reading, Menlo Park: Timpthy J. Corrigan, 1998 Greenaway, Peter. dir. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. Perf. Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard. Kees Kasander and All Arts Cook Ltd./Auto Films Inc Co-Production. 1990 Greenaway, Peter. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. Great Brittan: Distributed Art Publishers. 1990