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Emma And Clueless
In comparing the two texts you have become aware of how the contexts of the texts have chaped their form and meaning, OR, more interestingly, is a comparison of the values associated with each text. To what extent has this point of view been your experience? The process of transformation re-expresses a story told for one audience's time and context, using methods appropriate to another time and context. Thus in the transformation of Jane Austen's classic novel of manners Emma, told for a readership of complacent 19th century gentry, into Heckerling's post-modern teen-pic Clueless, told for a cinema audience of average teens, Austen's original directives mutate as the context's shift and additional impulses emerge. Through director Amy Heckerling's manipulation of cinematic techniques, the setting and timeframe have been changed as well as the social milieu, however, similarities still exist alongside the cultural and historical discrepancies. Both Austen and Heckerling write with an immense sense of fun about the social circle they moved in and understood, both composers adopting the same fondly indulgent but mildly critical attitude towards the characters and societies they depict. The shift in the composer's context however, reveals a change not only in time and setting but also in the society, and the values the composer depicts. The transformation of Emma's 19th century rural English village, into the heart of 20th century America's consumerist culture, shows the extent of Heckerling's modification of cultural and historical contexts in the transformation process. Both texts however, depict an enclosed microcosm of society, the narrowness of the social circle making correct behaviour imperative. In Emma's world, Highbury is a rigidly structured society in which manner's are of the upmost importance, and knowledge of family and background is vital. In this 19th century world, values are based o... Please login to view comments from other users.
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