Emma Clueless
... ” Amy Heckerling’s ‘Clueless’ is an appropriated text of Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’. Amy Heckerling has transformed Emma, by taking it from one context and transforming it into another. ... By recreating Emma, Amy Heckerling has not only provided a new text, but she has also provided a new reading of the original text. Clueless classifies as a modern day ‘teen pic’. Heckerling, the composer of Clueless has adopted the themes from Emma with the basic plot and translated it into modern culture. Sexuality, Money, fashion and prestige are very much foregrounded in Clueless, however these themes similarly exist throughout Emma. An audience must be able to relate to a text and Clueless allows the message presented in Emma to become relative to a modern day audience.