Can One Eat Art? The Political, Socio-Economic and Artistic Role of Food in Peter Greenaway’s Film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover
Can One Eat Art? The Political, Socio-Economic and Artistic Role of Food in Peter Greenaway’s Film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover
Author(s): Małgorzata KowalewskaSubject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Social psychology and group interaction, Behaviorism, Social differentiation, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Social Norms / Social Control, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; food; film; history of culinary; gourmets; politics; history of art; Peter Greenaway; Margaret Thatcher; foodies; Great Britain
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the relationship between food and politics based on the example of Peter’s Greenaway film The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover. This particular Greenaway’s film is compelling for the purposes of the presented analysis, as he is an accredited painter and he uses food as references to historic paintings. In my article, I analyse the role of food (as an element of scenography in Greenaway’s film) as a means of explaining political and social problems presented. I will reference to history of art, political and social situation, as well as approach to food in the upper class in Great Britain in ’80s of the 20th century
Journal: Kultura Popularna
- Issue Year: 56/2018
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 156-164
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English