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Amy Heckerling’s film Clueless is an appropriation of Jane Austen’s Emma, closely paralleling the story in terms of plot and characterisation. The similar and different perceptions of the same values in the two texts provide the audience a greater understanding and insight of the values, even though their context may vary vastly. The attitude towards certain values such as marriage, social status and education in both texts are reinforced by each other. Is the film just another “modern” remake of a great novel? Perhaps not, lets have a closer look. Even though now Emma is considered a canonical text, during the time of first publication it would have been perceived the same way as Clueless (just another “teen flick”). The audience of both texts, to begin with were very minute, for Emma it would have been the upper middle class and the aristocrats, whereas Clueless would appeal to the female, western, teenage audience. The audience that have been enlightened by both texts (a minority no doubt) gain an insight into the values created by the characters in both texts as the different perception of these values reinforce each other. Clueless is set in the late twentieth century in Beverly Hills, USA where emp