{"id":3251,"date":"2020-01-24T09:24:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T09:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2020-02-06T17:43:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T17:43:58","slug":"mattias-frey-discusses-the-depiction-of-twins-for-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/01\/24\/mattias-frey-discusses-the-depiction-of-twins-for-the-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattias Frey discusses the depiction of twins for The Independent"},"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.independent.co.uk\/\"><em>The Independent<\/em><\/a> newspaper on 22 January 2020, for an article entitled \u2018Love Island: Why Do We Fetishise Female Twins\u2026\u2019 by Sophie Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p>The article discussed the current series of ITV\u2019s <em>Love Island<\/em>, which features real life twins Jess and Eve Gale, and which follows a long history of media depictions of twins. Twins are often objectified and exploited, and also frequently presented as sinister.<\/p>\n<p>Film and media representations of twins \u2018depict a threat from the &#8220;outsider&#8221; twin or fantasise about leading a double life apart from bourgeois constraints,\u2019 explains Mattias in the article. \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0081505\/\"><em>The Shining<\/em><\/a> (1980) and its hallucinatory rendering of two twin girls, is one of the most famous examples of the horrific potential of twins.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please see <em>The Independen<\/em>t\u2019s web page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/love-island-twins-fetish-sex-a9288726.html\">www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/love-island-twins-fetish-sex-a9288726.html<\/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 The Independent newspaper on 22 January 2020, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/01\/24\/mattias-frey-discusses-the-depiction-of-twins-for-the-independent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3254,"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\/3251"}],"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=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}