Hospice Words. Text Mining and Visualizations in Ken Kesey’s Cuckoo’s Nest and Hauben & Goldman’s Movie Script
Hospice Words. Text Mining and Visualizations in Ken Kesey’s Cuckoo’s Nest and Hauben & Goldman’s Movie Script

Summary/Abstract: Miloš Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest film adaptation released in 1975 captures the essence of Ken Kesey’s novel, additionally making some remarkable “European” differences to match the medium of the long picture format. The movie adaptation was made during a time of significant social and cultural change in the United States and finally put in front of the public something that nobody dared to touch in the industry. From a digital perspective, not many Romanian scientific articles have cobbled together and used data mining tools for textual analysis of distributions, recurrences, and term stylometry criteria to highlight information about the characters, attributes, the fundamental or secondary themes of a literary work. With this aim, and with the help of data synthesis and visual representations offered by Voyant Tools, we tried to quantitatively mark how, both in the book and in the film script, the quickly extracted data can comparatively highlight the main protagonists, themes, correlations and other attributes of the novel and the script. For the corpus analysis, we used the movie script available on DailyScript, and the 50th Anniversary Edition of the book, printed by Viking, Penguin Group, in 2012.

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