1. Emma and Clueless Clueless begins as (opening scene) * Scene I- Cher’s House * Soundtrack over: “Kids in America” by The Muffs (A variety of shots of girls having fun- opening montage) * Cher’s voice-over- “So OK‚ you’re probably thinking‚ “Is this‚ like‚ a Noxzema (popular skin cleanser brand among females as a facial cleanser or make-up remover) commercial‚ or what?” But seriously‚ I actually have a way normal life for a teenage girl. I mean I get up‚ I brush my teeth‚ and I pick
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Emma / Clueless comparative essay – film techniques How do the film techniques help in the exploration of the themes in ‘Emma’ and ‘Clueless’? Refer to the films in detail. The directors of the films ‘Emma’ and ‘Clueless’ use a range of film techniques to highlight the themes of the texts. Diarmuid Lawrence and 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
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Families were too different‚ perhaps too happy‚ she had decided. Families … they just weren’t what Emma wanted. Well‚ it wasn’t like she could get much she wanted; she didn’t have a house to live in‚ a warm bed to sleep in‚ healthy food to eat or clean water to drink. She didn’t even have a mother or father to love or be loved by. But she wouldn’t want to have a family of her own – for fear of what she had to endure would happen to her own children. The tympanic rhythm of Emma’s ragged‚ dirty boots
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Like all of Jane Austin’s books‚ Emma is a story about women moving up on the social ladder through marriage. In that time‚ women in England were denied the possibility of improving their social status through hard work. In order for them to move up on the social ladder‚ they had to marry someone who was considered to be of a higher class. The role of women in the nineteenth century England was to attract a husband who had a higher social status‚ thereby creating a respectable identity for themselves
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classic novel Emma‚ by Jane Austen. However‚ have you ever considered that Emma is Clueless? Yes‚ Amy Heckling’s 1995 movie‚ Clueless‚ can be related to the novel Emma‚ published in 1816. There is no doubt that Clueless substantially derives‚ and is adapted from Emma. However‚ apart from similarities‚ there are differences and adaptations from Emma to Clueless. These are necessary as a result of the disparity in values and attitudes between the early 19th century England of Emma and late 20th
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Paper II Preparation Report on Emma by Jane Austen Topic 4 “Consider the female characters in the novel. Discuss and characterize in terms of themes and relation to the protagonist.” Prepared by Abigail Boursiquot‚ Jennifer Fliesser‚ Katharine Christie & Shaima Kaka I. Introduction to Characters and Theme Female Characters Thematic Topics ❏ Emma Woodhouse ❏ Miss Bates ❏ Importance of social class ❏ Lack of creative/intellectual freedom ❏ Harriet Smith ❏ Jane Fairfax ❏ Socially acceptable matches
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stormy sisterhood… What sees keenly‚ speaks aptly‚ and moves flexibly‚ it pits her to study: but what throbs fast and full‚ though hidden‚ what the blood rushes through‚ what is the unseen scat of life and the sentient target of death - that Miss Austen ignores.” Though Charlotte Bronte‚ one of the finest English novelists‚ contradicted with and criticized Miss Austen’s novel writing in several ways‚ it is the latter who has proven
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Jane Austen in the 20th Century A Comparison between Emma and Clueless Generally one would assume that our society has changed considerably since Jane Austen’s times and I do not want to argue the opposite. In some ways‚ however‚ we are still concerned with similar problems. Especially coming of age is a topic which has not lost any of its currency. This can nicely be seen in the 1995 Hollywood remake of Jane Austen’s Emma Clueless. Director Amy Heckerling transferred the story originally
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extremely limited in themselves. Her subject matter is limited to the manners of a small section of country-gentry who apparently never have been worried about death or sex‚ hunger or war‚ guilt or God. Jane Austen herself referred to her work as “Two inches of ivory.” In a letter to her niece‚ Jane Austen wrote‚ “Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on.” Those three or four families are the mind we knew intimately – the landed gentry‚ the upper classes‚ the lower classes
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Would you be able to handle not seeing the outside world for five years? In this story‚ Room written by Emma Donoghue a mother got kidnapped when she was getting out of her car when she was leaving her college campus. She was put in a room ‚ ended up pregnant and giving birth to a baby boy‚ which now in the book is five years old. Throughout the story she describes the living conditions and follows to tell you the drastic things they do throughout the story when they finally choose to try escape
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