1.How can images ‘show seeing’ (W.J.T Mitchell)? Discuss in relation to ONE or TWO visual texts and with reference to the notion of ‘visuality’.

2.Discuss the hegemonic, negotiated, and oppositional readings (Stuart Hall) of ONE or TWO visual texts. For an example of this kind of analysis, see Sturken and Cartwright, Practices of Looking, 2009, pp. 72-75. For your essay, use a different example.

3.Analyse ONE or TWO iconic images (C.S. Peirce) with reference to the five principles of iconicity proposed by Robert Harriman and John Lucaites in their book No Caption Needed, 2007, pp. 29-37.

4.What is a ‘global-local’ image? Discuss with reference to ONE or TWO visual texts.

5.What impact are new communication technologies having on our visual sense of experiencing the contemporary world as a specifically global environment? Discuss with reference to ONE or TWO visual texts.

6.Discuss the visual politics of Hunger Games (2012) in relation to Roland Barthes’s idea of myth as a ‘meta-language’ (Mythologies).

7.What is postfeminist media culture? Discuss with reference to at least two visual texts. 

8.Discuss the politics of gender, class and/or race in makeover television. Illustrate your discussion with reference to a single case study. 

9.What does it mean for the self to be ‘branded’? Discuss with reference to a specific case study (e.g. celebrity figure) or media form (e.g. YouTube, Instagram). 

10.What is meant by the concept of ‘commodity feminism’? Discuss with reference to a particular advertising campaign. 

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