Clueless is widely considered to be one of the defining teen films of the 1990s. Presenting the teenage social world of Cher and her friends through an array of comedic lines and references to popular culture, the film has become part of a lexicon of popular youth culture. Based loosely on Jane Austen's Emma. Clueless has gone on to become a cult film, acquiring a new audience among later generations.

The film is explored in this book from a number of perspectives, including gender, youth and popular culture; its relationships to earlier and later teen films; the use...