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Pbs Learning Media: Emma 2: Love and Marriage
Examine how Emma's surprising views on marriage reflect the limited opportunities for women in Regency England, in this excerpt from the 2009 Masterpiece adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. In this scene, Harriet is shocked to hear Emma...
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Pbs Learning Media: Little Women: An Iconic Character
Experience one of the most dramatic scenes in "Little Women," the beloved American classic by Louisa May Alcott, in this video excerpt from Little Women | Masterpiece. When the March girls receive word that their father, a Union army...
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Pbs Learning Media: Little Women: Defying Convention
Explore how Jo's dreams of being a writer-and her refusal to marry Theodore Laurence (Laurie)-defied the conventional roles of women in 19th-century America, in this video excerpt from Little Women: Masterpiece. Although readers...
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Pbs Learning Media: Les Miserables: Valjean's Confession
Analyze the morality and motivation of the novel's famous main character, Jean Valjean, in this video excerpt from Les Miserables, Masterpiece. Based on the classic novel by Victor Hugo, the scene between Jean Valjean and Marius...
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Pbs Learning Media: Les Miserables: Taking Sides
Gain insights into the causes of political upheaval in France and the role that young people played in the Paris Uprising of 1832, in this video excerpt from Les Miserables, Masterpiece. Set in a tavern, the scene conveys the various...
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Pbs Learning Media: Les Miserables: Forgiveness and Redemption
Explore the meaning of kindness, love, and forgiveness in this video excerpt from Les Miserables, Masterpiece. Based on the famous novel by Victor Hugo, the production tells the story of Jean Valjean, who emerges from 19 years in a...
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Pbs Learning Media: Jane Austen, Sanditon Collection
This is a collection of three video clips from the production of Sanditon: MASTERPIECE, based on Jane Austen's unfinished novel. Teaching materials and an Austen biography are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Jane Austen, Emma Collection
This is a collection of three video clips from the 2009 MASTERPIECE adaptation of Jane Austen's "Emma." Teaching materials and a biography of Jane Austen are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Collection
Analyze how the life and times of Louisa May Alcott influenced her writing of the novel, "Little Women," which was once dismissed as a story for children and is now recognized as a literary classic. This collection includes three video...
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Pbs Learning Media: Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Collection
This is a collection of three video clips from Les Miserables: MASTERPIECE. Based on the famous novel by Victor Hugo. Teaching materials are included.
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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]