The values reflected in Emma and Clueless provide a tool of comparison when looking at these texts in their individual time and place. The context of the text is therefore a most essential dictator of protocol and the content of both the novel and film can be considered context specific. The differences in the context, leads to the idea that, yes there will be vast differences in the themes, principles and social structure of the two texts. However perhaps more remarkably there are many values that transcend change and remain important in both texts individually. What is common to the transformation of texts is the artistic expression, which is as much about the nature of the influence as the nature of the creative process itself. The transformed text, in this case Clueless marks the original with an imprint of another cultural context, interpretation, genre and the medium of...