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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit! Collection
It's Lit! is a series of 14 smart, funny video essays from PBS Digital Studios about our favorite books and why we love to read. The series delves into topics like the evolution of YA, how science fiction mirrors our own anxieties, and...
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: An Ode to the Romance Novel
Love it or hate it, the romance novel is the highest grossing literary genre. Its history is long and winding, and romance novels are full of tropes reflected upon its history. It has been the subject of intrigue, derision, and shame in...
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: How Fantasy Reflects Our World
Fantasy novels are more than just hundreds of pages worth of swords and magic! Okay, there's some of that. But it's also a lens to what our society finds important to our pasts, our presents, and future. [5:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Why Did They Make Me Read This in High School?
What makes a book important? Why are some books required reading in high school, while others are lost to history? Check out this video essay. [5:46]
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: The Evolution of Ya
Young Adult Fiction (YA) is dominating literature, and more young people are reading now than ever before. Lindsay Ellis explores how YA carved a place in publishing with It's Lit! from PBS Digital Studios. [5:43]
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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]