Shout Outs, Allusions and other references to Jane Austen's novel Emma and its adaptations in other media.
Films — Live-Action
- Clueless is loosely based on Jane Austen's Emma
- The Jane Austen Book Club: Jocelyn's character is based on Emma.
- In The Collector, Miranda asks her captor to get her Jane Austen's Emma. She compares herself to its imperfect and slightly manipulative heroine, and then she likens her captor Frederick to Mr Elton, her fling from university to Frank Churchill, and asks herself if her older teacher is Mr Knightley.
- The Comfortable Courtesan: Clorinda reads books including The Vindication of the Rights of Women, Frankenstein, and Emma.
- Death Comes to Pemberley turns into a bit of a crossover between older works. George Wickham worked for Sir Walter Eliot, and while Sir Walter flirted with his Lydia, he flirted with Sir Walter's daughter Elizabeth. Anne Eliot is described as "having made a prosperous and happy marriage", and Sir Walter's financial situation has improved so much that he threw his poor occupants out and returned to the Elliott's family home. Harriet Martin and Emma Woodhouse both wrote to Colonel Fitzwilliam, and finally succeeded in convincing him to let Harriet take George Wickham's son at home.
- Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries: Several Jane Austen characters appear outside the title two including Emma herself as well as Harriet Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Weston and Isabella and John Knightley.
- Pug is written as a sci-fi continuation of Pride and Prejudice and seems to unify it and Emma into a single Expanded Universe.
- Shades of Milk and Honey is a homage to Austen's work and Without a Summer is functionally a mixing Emma with Industrial Revolution riots.
- Wild Orchid: In the first book, Taylor thinks that June looks like Gwyneth Paltrow in the 1996 film. Taylor saw the movie in English class and wrote an essay in which she said that Emma is lucky because she has lots of friends.
- Lost in Austen: Amanda quotes Jane Austen's Emma while scolding Bingley for his treatment of Jane and public drunkenness. "Badly done," indeed.
- Veronica Mars: In Hi Infidelity when Veronica wants to invite Parker along to go bowling because she seems lonely, Logan snarks that it's very "Emma" of her.
- Good Society is a Jane Austen themed roleplaying game, which of course includes Emma in it's makeup.
- 7th Dragon: Looking over Pleroma's shelves of stories from the ancient world include titles like King Lear , Emma and I, Claudius.
- Bernadette Banner discusses the historical costuming in the 2020 film production Emma. (2020) in her videos 5 Historical Films That Got the Costumes RIGHT
and Ranking 2020 Costume Dramas on Historical Accuracy.
