{"id":4622,"date":"2004-02-19T17:44:18","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T21:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/httpblogslawharvardeduceerock4\/2004\/02\/19\/fiction-writin"},"modified":"2004-02-19T17:44:18","modified_gmt":"2004-02-19T21:44:18","slug":"fiction-writing-film-history-criticism-what-more-could-a-girl-ask-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2004\/02\/19\/fiction-writing-film-history-criticism-what-more-could-a-girl-ask-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction Writing, Film, History, Criticism, What More Could a Girl Ask For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a349'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"left\">This one hits all my buttons and you bet your ass I&#8217;ll be there, so should you:<\/P><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">Please join us for Emily Thompson&#8217;s&nbsp;Work-in-Progress: &#8220;The Projectionist&#8221; <\/P><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">Monday, March 1st, 4:00 p.m. <\/P><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">MIT Room E51-275<\/P><br \/>\n<P><BR>Visiting Scholar Emily Thompson takes the leap into fiction, reading a draft of a short story that draws upon her historical research on technicians&#8217; experience of the transition to sound in the American film industry circa 1929. Discussion will certainly help her improve the story; it may additionally address more general issues: What opportunities and challenges does fiction offer historians? Can a story be historically true even if the people and events described in it are not real? Is fiction a viable alternative by which to document the experience of historical change? Should we do it anyway?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one hits all my buttons and you bet your ass I&#8217;ll be there, so should you: Please join us for Emily Thompson&#8217;s&nbsp;Work-in-Progress: &#8220;The Projectionist&#8221; Monday, March 1st, 4:00 p.m. MIT Room E51-275 Visiting Scholar Emily Thompson takes the leap into fiction, reading a draft of a short story that draws upon her historical research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58QoK-1cy","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}