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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: When the Book Is Better Than the Movie
This video [5:28] essay focuses on Which is better, the book or the movie? Explore the question with Lindsay Ellis in It's Lit! from PBS Digital Studios.
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: The Case for Fan Fiction
For years writers of fan fiction were shamed, the butt of jokes, and even subject to copyright litigation. However, in the past few years, with the fan fiction writers of today becoming the published mainstream authors of today the past...
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: The Beauty and Anguish of Les Miserables!
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is one of history's most famous novels and one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history. On this special episode of It's Lit! we explore how Les Miserable became both a national and revolutionary...
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: How Greek Mythology Inspires Us
Ancient Greek Mythology has worked its way into modern pop culture so deeply that it would be an almost Sisyphean task to compile every way it's manifested! [10:08]
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Death as a Character
Death as a character reveals how we process one of life's greatest mysteries, and there's a lot more breadth to how the grim reaper is depicted than you might think. [8:57]
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Feasts & Fiction: Famous Food in Literature
Food varies wildly from place to place and from culture to culture; since humans are such sensory creatures, using words to evoke the experience of eating is an excellent way to bring a text to life. [8:57]
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Unreliable Narrators
Can an unreliable narrator help readers see the world through multiple lenses? Check out this video [7:35] to find out.
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Fear of Ghost...writing
What is ghostwriting and why does it exist? The answer is less frightening, but more complicated, than you'd think. [8:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Can You Judge a Book by Its Cover?
Get to know the story behind some of literature's most iconic book covers in the latest episode of It's Lit video essay. [7:43]
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Why Sci Fi Is a Mirror on Society
While science fiction is associated with Mars, robots, and cyberpunk, its origin story is shaped throughout several centuries. Check out the origin of science fiction with Lindsay Ellis in this video. [6:09]