Essay Proposition

Essay Title

Big Brother, The Form Of Panopticism For All The Family To Enjoy. 

Main Issues 

. Explanation of Foucault’s Panopticism

. Referring also to theory’s of the gaze

. Describe how Big Brother is a panoptic model

. Touching on the subject of how the panoptic model has an impact upon contestants behaviour

. Also looking at the different aspects to Gaze theory, as contestants behave to several audiences. 

Visual Matter

. In terms of graphic design, i will look at the different logo designs of the ‘all seeing eye’

. I will also look and analyze footage from the show, taken from Youtube, 4OD, the present series on at this moment in time, both live footage and highlights. 

An example of the footage i can analyze, taking one particular interesting part of the housemates behaviour, Relationships, whether they are real or for the cameras. 

Theory

. Panopticism 

. Gaze Theory 

Theorists /// Writers

. Foucault 

. D. Chandler

Resources 

.www.wikipedia.com

. Daniel Chandler, Notes on ‘The Gaze’ 

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/gaze/gaze02.html

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.www.jstor.org

. Foucaults book on panopticism 

. articles on big bro