{"id":3047,"date":"2019-11-07T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2019-11-07T17:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:00:28","slug":"mattias-frey-discusses-the-appeal-of-joker-in-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/11\/07\/mattias-frey-discusses-the-appeal-of-joker-in-wired\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattias Frey discusses the appeal of Joker in Wired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/frey.html\">Mattias Frey<\/a>, Professor of Film, Media and Culture, and the Head of Film and Media, was interviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/https:\/www.wired.co.uk\/\"><em>Wired UK<\/em><\/a> on Saturday 2 November 2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Wired <\/em>covers contemporary science, technology and culture. It is the sister site of the UK-based bimonthly magazine of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>The article concerns the film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jokermovie.net\/\"><em>Joker<\/em><\/a> (dir. Todd Phillips, 2019), starring Joaquin Phoenix as the eponymous anti-hero from the Batman franchise. The film is currently on release in cinemas across the UK. The article explores how the film has inspired mass anti-government movements across the globe with divergent followings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In some ways, it opens itself up to interpretation,\u2019 explains Mattias in the article. \u2018It&#8217;s almost like a blank screen where you can project your own preoccupations.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/joker-masks-protests\">www.wired.co.uk\/article\/joker-masks-protests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattias Frey, Professor of Film, Media and Culture, and the Head of Film and Media, was interviewed by Wired UK on Saturday 2 November 2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/11\/07\/mattias-frey-discusses-the-appeal-of-joker-in-wired\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1123,168423,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}