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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Emma/Clueless • Amy Heckerling’s teenpic comedy Clueless resonates the ideas‚ values and cultural assumptions evident in Jane Austen’s Emma • Through the transformation of Austen’s text‚ several elements have been transformed and contemporised in the Heckerling’s Clueless ▪ Make-over/transformation ▪ Role of women in patriarchal society ▪ Struggles of social classes: the mobility and fluidity of the class structure ▪ Societal commentary
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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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The Social Evolution of Emma Woodhouse As the saying goes‚ one cannot judge a book by its cover. This is especially true in the novel Emma by Jane Austen. The novel pertains to this saying‚ but beyond that the characters do as well. Emma Woodhouse‚ the shallow heroine cannot see behind looks and what the reasoning is through people’s actions. She is so aloof to what is happening outside of her perspective that many people’s actions in the novel‚ which are predictable many times to the reader‚ end
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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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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 more popular. This higher society is presented through the negative attitudes and values of the girls in the poster and the overall
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Under the direction of respective values‚ everyone shapes up different value orientations and seeks after what he thinks to be the most valuable. What is social values? There are so many different personal social values‚ everyone has own though‚ people from different countries have different ideas about it. For me‚ my core values are family‚ self worth‚ hard working and giving. The origin of these values is I want to become a people who can bring sunshine into others. Education problem is
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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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SOCIAL VALUES Social values are the customs‚ beliefs‚ tastes‚ social practices and norms‚ and attitude of a particular social community. Social value refers to the attitude or ’code of conduct’ that an individual in certain society has to conform to. Social values determine course of social life of a person and regulate his or her life to a great extent. It is one’s commitment to social values that one cannot get involved in anti-social and criminal or notorious activities. Social
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