{"id":3213,"date":"2019-12-20T13:04:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T13:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2019-12-20T13:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T13:04:44","slug":"mattias-frey-discusses-the-impact-of-cinema-reviews-in-inews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/12\/20\/mattias-frey-discusses-the-impact-of-cinema-reviews-in-inews\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattias Frey discusses the impact of cinema reviews in iNews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/2130\/frey-mattias\">Mattias Frey<\/a>, Professor of Film, Media and Culture, and the Head of Film and Media, was interviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/\"><em>iNews<\/em><\/a> yesterday, 19 December 2019 over the critical mauling received by the new adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s <em>Cats <\/em>(dir. Tom Hooper, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>In the article, Mattias explains that reviews themselves don\u2019t necessary influence box office, but audiences nevertheless value reviews for social reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Newspaper reviews are important for people \u2018to test their opinion, to affirm their own taste or to find out more about a film that has moved them, baffled them or that they have love or hated\u2019, explains Mattias in the article. \u2018In other words, reviews provide a kind of further dialogue that extends the life of the film well beyond the two hours they spent watching it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please see the <em>iNews<\/em> page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/cats-review-film-reviews-matter-critics-stop-film-hit-box-office-1345978\">https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/cats-review-film-reviews-matter-critics-stop-film-hit-box-office-1345978<\/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 iNews yesterday, 19 December 2019 over the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/12\/20\/mattias-frey-discusses-the-impact-of-cinema-reviews-in-inews\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3214,"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\/3213"}],"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=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}