This site uses some words that may be offensive. These include a variety of curses and slurs. They are all used for research purposes.
Our project examines Quentin Tarantino's Academy Award nominated and winning screenplays Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained. We are specifically looking at the usage of curse words and slurs related to the different gender of the characters in the screenplays.
We are interested in analyzing the usage of curse words and slurs in Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained. For the three screenplays, we tagged curse words and slurs, analyzed the parts of speech of each curse word, measured the frequency of each curse word and slurs used by each gender and how these curse words and slurs are used differently based on gender. We hypothesize that male characters would use more curse words and slurs when interacting with other male characters and less curse words and slurs when interacting with female characters. In addition, we also hypothesize that female characters would use significantly less profanity in their overall dialogue.
This project was completed as a part of the course Computational Methods in the Humanities at the University of Pittsburgh, taught by David Birnbaum. We would like to thank our fearless project mentor Alexandra Krongel for her relentless support and guidance. In addition, we would also like to thank Elisa Beshero-Bondar for her guidance and support on our Network Analysis section.
Profanities in Quentin
Tarantino's Screenplays by Abigail Chan and Olivia Bianchini is licensed
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