Synonyms
Artiste provocateur; Food terrorism; Neophobia, visual culture; Pica; Taboo
Introduction
Alimentary delinquency, a term originally coined by French sociologist Pierre Aimez, will be used here to designate a wide range of eating practices that are generally considered by society at large as aberrant and as going beyond the normal, comprising a number of disturbed ingestion practices that are widely considered as taboo and/or excessive: ingestion of nonfood (nonnutritive) items or of excessive amounts of food, doing things with food that should not be done, and forcing/duping people into eating something they would not normally eat. Although evidence of alimentary delinquency as described dates back to antiquity, it will be discussed here as specific to the modern, contemporary period, as a symptom of “gastro-anomy,” a term coined by Claude Fischler to describe the consequences on eating and food-making practices of the bio-cultural crisis experienced by modern eaters. Fischler...
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Filmography
Babette’s feast(Gabriel Axel, Denmark, 1987)
The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover (Peter Greenaway, U.K., 1989)
Eat, drink, man, woman (Ang Lee, China 1994)
La Grande Bouffe (Marco Ferreri, France, 1973)
Julie and Julia (Nora Ephron, USA, 2009)
Like water for chocolate (Alfonso Arau, Mexico, 1992)
Phantom of liberty (Luis Buñuel, France, 1974)
Salò o le 120 Giornate de Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy, 1975)
Sweet movie (Dusan Makavejev, Canada, 1974)
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Dwyer, K. (2014). Alimentary Delinquency. In: Thompson, P.B., Kaplan, D.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0929-4_385
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