ane Austen’s comedy of manners novel Emma and Amy Heckerling’s ‘teenpic’Clueless‚ as profound and satirical reflections of Regency England and postmodern America respectively‚ show how the transformation process can shape and enhance textual‚ intertextual and contextual meaning. By adapting the genteel‚ idyllic country society of Highbury to the upper- fast-paced microcosm of modern Beverley Hills‚ insight is given into the realignment of social values and attitudes towards class‚ marriage and gender
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The 1993 hit film Clueless ’‚ written and directed by Amy Heckerling‚ exemplifies how popular culture re-appropriates Austen ’s novel‚ Emma ’ to serve updated agendas. Clueless ’ involves a storyline‚ which closely follows the text of Emma ’. However‚ there are some key points of difference in the transformation that has taken place. This is due to the individual context of the 19th Century prose text and that of a modern appropriated film text. The context can be divided into three focal categories:
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EXTENDED RESPONSE Emma/ Clueless- Love and Marriage The novel Emma by Jane Austen is a comedy of manners set in the early nineteenth century. The context of this time placed a particular emphasis on how‚ who one married. Subsequently the novel Emma which‚ deals with the everyday lives and concerns of people‚ reveals many insights into the idea of love and marriage. One particular idea presented is notion that marriage is very much determined by one’s social class and making a match below
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“How has Amy Heckerling used film techniques to portray the transformation of ‘Cher’ in her film‚ ‘Clueless’?” In the hit film of 1995 -Clueless‚ director Amy Heckerling effectively uses film techniques to further portray the deep meaning of the story. The film tells the story of a selfish teenage girl who transforms into a responsible woman. In the beginning of the story‚ the main protagonist‚ Cher‚ is depicted as a narrow-minded‚ extravagant teenager. Heckerling uses vivid colour and extremity
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Question Explain how visual codes in at least one of the images provided present a particular view point of the world Visual Codes portrayed in the promotional poster for ‘Clueless’ presents particular a view of the world. These codes include‚ layout‚ camera angles‚ clothing‚ props‚ facial expression‚ body language‚ symbolism‚ framing and stereotypes. The images gives the ideology that the more rich you are‚ the less you will put into school work‚ you will be more spoilt and therefore will be
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Clueless was an iconic release‚ written and directed by Amy Heckerling that dramatized the life and struggles of Cher Horowitz; your typical‚ American rich girl. Cher comes from an wealthy home‚ her story is set in Beverly Hills‚ CA where she lives and attends high school. Her mother passed away early in her life and so she lives with her father who is a lawyer. Cher is privileged by her affluence and social status‚ which also makes her popular amongst her peers. Her main concerns are mostly superficial
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Clueless About Stereotypes? This day and age people look at media differently‚ civilians give media producers and directors the right to generalize the population into categories. Not only do filmmakers and directors stereotype races by modifying their existence but also think it is perfectly acceptable. Why is it tolerable for people of different races to be looked down upon because of the ways media portrays them? Every movie makes its way to the top by some how standing out amongst the rest
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Pop Art · Introduction This essay will discuss paintings by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. The pieces it will discuss are: name and date the pieces‚ list any key theories or research.... · Pop Art – background Who‚ where‚ when‚ what before and after‚ what happening at the time (context)‚ Pop Art started in the 1950s when the Independent Group started to reference popular culture in their artwork. The term Pop Art didn’t appear until 1958 in an article by Lawrence Alloway. It moved
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Sociology of Medicine (Health and Illness) Words are inadequate… “Medical sociology centers on the social construction of health and illness –that is‚ a construction shaped by many elements of the social order and often independent from biomedical phenomena. In this perspective‚ medical sociology links together and makes sense of the varied manifestations of health and illness: biomedical data‚ professional practice‚ institutional structures‚ social policy‚ economics and financing
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In the short story‚ ‘Emma’ written by Carolyn Cole‚ we are introduced to a scenario phrased by an innocent little girl who views the adult’s life as a game. We see the character Emma struggling to please both her daughter and husband and the character Mrs. Robinson who is a single mother and has her eyes set on a man with money. Mrs. Robinson is just a deceitful woman waiting for Emma to back down from the game so she can rightfully claim the ‘trophy’. The characters Emma and Mrs. Robinson can both
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