Amy Heckerling's "Clueless" involves a storyline, which closely follows the text of Jane Austen's novel "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 nineteenth century prose text and that of the modern appropriated film text. The context can be divided into three focal categories, the social, historical and environmental context. In order to be able to address the …
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…so on, Heckerling is able to transform the social, historical and environmental context of Jane Austen's Emma to the modern context of Clueless. She achieves this through investigating the literary techniques employed by Austen in her novel, such as narration/point of view, writing style, syntax, diction, punctuation, irony, humour, authorial commentary, and dialogue and transforming this into her work, with her own individual 'twists' added here and there, both original and surprising at times.