A proposed essay title or topic
Has reality television become a new panoptic device?

The main issues addressed by your argument (in bullet points)
- surveillance society

- new ideas about 'celebrity'

- controlled veiwing

- simulations

Any visual material that you will look at.

-  Big Brother (Channel 4)

What theoretical approach / methodology will you use? e.g. marxism, the gaze, psychoanalysis etc.
- Cultural Theory, panopticism, the gaze

Which specific theorists / writers will you refer to?
- Jean Baudrillard

- Michel Foucault

- Guy Debord

At least 5 books / articles / resources already located (referenced using Harvard)

- Jean Baudrillard, Simulations (1983)

- Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (1967)

- Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, (1975)