How to See Yourself by Mirzoeff
The Imperial Self
The Portrait and the Hero
The Many Selves of Postmodernisim
the picture generation
The war and art
Cindy Sherman - influenced a new generation of artists. her work was also the key for the study of visual culture. 
She explores the way cinema sees women and gender. in her work 'film stills' she takes pictures of herself in different costumes and on different sets. her work is about the fact that women are only to be "looked at" and her work tries to combat that by forcing the audience to veiw the image form a womans gaze rather than a males.
Nan Goldin - created a 'visual diary' of her life
Putting the Other in Shade
mirrors
monarchy
the viewers gaze
the self portarait
self portrait before a mirror
the dead self portraits
women as artists
gender as a performance
voguing and being "read"
willie ninja
race
Samuel Fosso
african chief cliche
Selfies and the Planetory Majority
selfies as a digital conversation
Jack Halberstam
"gender, sex, race and class have changed so radically that a new life can be glimpsed ahead"
"our bodies are now in the network and in the world at the same time"
our world changing frequently and unpredictably
snapchat and other dense visual images
the glass ceiling in hollywood cinema