Masthead Logo Scholar Works Honors Theses Honors 2019 Bricolage on the Upper East Side: The nI tertwining of Multimedia in Emma, Clueless, and Gossip Girl Nichole Decker University of Maine at Farmington Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/honors_theses Part of the Comparative Literature Commons Recommended Citation Decker, Nichole, "Bricolage on the Upper East Side: The nI tertwining of Multimedia in Emma, Clueless, and Gossip Girl" (2019). Honors Theses. 5. https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/honors_theses/5 This Research Project is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors at Scholar Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholar Works. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 2 Bricolage on the Upper East Side: The Intertwining of Multimedia in Emma, Clueless, and Gossip Girl Nichole Decker Honors Scholar Project May 6, 2019 “Okay, so you’re probably going, is this like a Noxzema commercial or what?” - Cher In this paper I will analyze the classic novel Emma, and the 1995 film Clueless, as an adaptive pair, but I will also be analyzing the TV series, Gossip Girl, as a derivative text. I bring this series into the discussion because of the ways in which it echos, parallels, and alludes to both Emma and Clueless individually, and the two as a source pair. I do not argue that the series is an actual adaptation, but rather, a sort of collage, recombining motifs from both source texts to create something new, exciting, and completely absurd.