A Study Guide for Amy Heckerling's "Clueless (Film Entry)"
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Clueless
Jane Austen
1995
Introduction
The 1995 film Clueless takes the basic story of Jane Austen's novel Emma, published in 1815, and applies it to high school students in modernday Los Angeles. Like Emma, Cher (the protagonist) is a bright, happy, popular young woman. She thinks of herself as a talented matchmaker after two people she pushes together find themselves in love, and, as with Emma, Cher's new enthusiasm for matchmaking ends up creating unexpected romantic complications in her own life.
Although many of the characters in Clueless have identifiable counterparts in Austen's novel, the film is undoubtedly a product of the modern world. Whether familiar with Emma or not, audiences get caught up in the film's social satire of the protected lives of wealthy teens in Beverly Hills, particularly in former music-video actress Alicia Silverstone's ditzy yet insightful Cher.
Amy Heckerling, who wrote and directed the film, has a