Textual analysis of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

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Reading the Media: Textual Analysis Assignment

Submission details: 1000 words on a close reading of a sequence of a film/documentary/new

media text of your choice

Film: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Directed by Miles Forman

Starring Jack Nicholson

One Flew Over The Cuckoo?s Nest is not a film that adheres to a strict set

of generic conventions. However, my understanding of the film as a media

text was helped when I recognised that it is a film that follows a classic

Hollywood narrative.

Mimetic theories of film narration can be applied to One Flew Over The Cuckoo?s

Nest, as the narration style is the presenting a spectacle that is being

told through the eyes of the characters. This is in contrast to diagetic

theories of narration which, in the words of Plato ?the poet himself is

the speaker and does not attempt to suggest to us that anyone but himself

is speaking?(Bordwell 1985)

The narrative structure of the scene I am analysing could be described as

one that follows Bordwell's description of the classic Hollywood narrative.

According to Bordwell (1985) ?the