I bloody loved this question.
I incorporated the question into my thesis, expanding on how Austen used narrative techniques with the prose medium versus Heckerling's film techniques, etc.
Then did a paragraph for each context - i.e. Regency England & post-modern 20th Century society, comparing and contrasting them in terms of constant and changed values & attitudes to themes such as love, marriage, social hierarchy, gender roles.
Then talked about the superficial values and delusions concerning the way life is lived for Emma & Cher.
Then my other significant element was about love and marriage values & attitudes compared over both societies, talked about the protagonist/heroine's path of awareness, catalysts for their self awareness and the way the composers conveyed the realisation, and ... yeah.
Also pumped my essay full of techniques and crap.
It was a general question, I liked how it didn't take much effort to manipulate my prepared essay to fit it. Just had to extract some elements and include others, etc.
