... Amy Heckerling explore the themes of marriage and matches, distortion of vision, social and moral responsibility, and the importance of self-knowledge. A detailed analysis of four parallel scenes in 'Emma' and 'Clueless' show how film techniques are utilized to help convey meaning in a text. Film techniques that Lawrence and Heckerling employed include lighting, mise-en-scene, dialogue, setting, music ... in delivering their message of the distortion of vision. Lawrence and Heckerling highlight the theme of social and moral responsibility in the ball scene and the dance scene ...

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... through the idea of marriage. In Austen's society, women were classified by who their husbands are. Austen depicts this convention through the use of sarcastic authorial intrusion, having Emma "improve her (Harriet); she (Emma) would detach her from her bad acquaintance, and introduce her into good society." Women had no power and depended on their husband or family members to provide financial ... " so she could date a male of higher social status. This shows the responder that there is an existing patriarchal assumption about females and their relationship with men. "Clueless" differs ...

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... form has changed, although I believe the messages and themes conveyed in Clueless are essentially the messages that Jane Austen communicated to her audience in Emma. The similarities of these messages are evident when analysing the themes of social stature, vanity, transformation and deception. These themes are common to ... beauty, much the same as Austen's town of Highbury. These sublevels rarely communicate with each other, but within there are many interactions. Emma's and Cher both wealthy and beautiful fall amongst the top level of society and their social values are reflected upon ...

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... that women are inferior to men and cannot be happy unless they are in a relationship. In Emma, by Jane Austen it is easy to see that the female characters main purpose throughout is to find suitable husbands. Even Emma who originally states that she does not need a man in the end has found true love. ... mentions that she would not date a high school boy and yet she still ends up happy and in love with Josh. One reason for the novel Emma to focus so much on marriage and relationships is that it was set in the early 1800's and that was the way of society. Another possible reason ... What ...

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... film is easily accessible and in many cases more understandable than the written word; this is the extra dimension that Heckerling has successfully added. In Emma, Austen observes the cultural norms of her time and uses satire and irony to ridicule what she saw as shameful and superficial. These narrative ... to Austens authorial comment have given her the ability to exploit the same. The film is set in Beverley Hills, transforming the social classes of Emma's time into social groups at Bronson Alcott High School. As Cher points out to her protege Tai, the loadies, the crew and the ... ...

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