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    A Study Guide for Amy Heckerling's "Clueless (Film Entry)"
    A Study Guide for Amy Heckerling's "Clueless (Film Entry)"
    A Study Guide for Amy Heckerling's "Clueless (Film Entry)"
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    A Study Guide for Amy Heckerling's "Clueless (Film Entry)"

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    A Study Guide for Amy Heckerling's "Clueless (Film Entry)," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 1, 2016
    ISBN9781535820912
    A Study Guide for Amy Heckerling's "Clueless (Film Entry)"

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      A Study Guide for Amy Heckerling's "Clueless (Film Entry)" - Gale

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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

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