Visual Text Analysis: Nighthawks By Edward Hopper

Visual Text Analysis

Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” (1942)

Visual Text Analysis
 When we perform a Visual
Text Analysis, we look at corresponding devices that are used to express a complex emotion, idea, or argument

Table of Contents
 1. Introduction
 2. Speaker
 3. Message
 4. Audience
 5. Visual Devices
 6. Analyzing a Visual Text
 7. References

Introduction
 We live in a world flush with an overwhelming amount of images
 A recent study shows that
Americans in the 1970s were exposed to about 500 ads per day. Today, we are exposed to about 5,000

Introduction
 Images, like texts, are NOT objective.
As rhetorician and author James
Baldwin wrote,
“nothing is written without bias.”

Introduction
 If we are exposed to over