• Krishangi Singh

Abstract: This paper would aim to explore the impact of using cinema as a means of encouraging students to pursue literary research by making it more accessible and relevant by corelating it with the popular culture via film screenings. With increasing permeation of popular culture in academic spaces, it becomes pertinent to inculcate methods such as film screenings in modern pedagogical practices which can allow students to understand abstract theoretical works in more relatable manner. For the purposes of this paper, I would share my experience of teaching Laura Mulvey’s work, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, which uses Freudian theory of psychoanalysis to argue about women’s representation in Hollywood being male centric, by correlating it with Ridley Scott’s seminal feminist film Thelma and Louise. In tandem with the theoretical analysis, I would be including my personal pedagogical experience of teaching in post-COVID-19 classrooms which have adopted hybrid mode of teaching with extensive multimedia technologies in online classes

Keywords: popular culture, cinema studies, film criticism, cultural theory and feminist studies.

"Watching Thelma and Louise: Using Laura Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure Theory for Interdisciplinary Learning ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no.f607-f617, December-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2312573.pdf

"Watching Thelma and Louise: Using Laura Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure Theory for Interdisciplinary Learning ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no. ppf607-f617, December-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2312573.pdf