LEADER 03765nam 22005775 450 001 9910495187803321 005 20240627164909.0 010 $a9783030800765 010 $a3030800768 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-80076-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000011996791 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6698990 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6698990 035 $a(OCoLC)1265465251 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-80076-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011996791 100 $a20210812d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auraz#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMUBI and the Curation Model of Video on Demand /$fby Mattias Frey 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 168 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 311 08$a9783030800758 311 08$a303080075X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index, 327 $a1 Introduction -- 2 Curation as Discourse, Trend and Cultural Salve -- 3 The Curation Business Model -- 4 MUBI History: Connections, Community and Curation -- 5 Recommendation Credibility in the MUBI Interface -- 6 The MUBI Audience -- 7 At the End of the Long Tail. 330 $aSubscription video on demand (SVOD) represents the fastest-growing means to consume films and series. Although market leaders Netflix and Amazon Prime have received much scholarly attention for the way that they use algorithms and big data to connect users to content, there is another significant, relatively unexamined model: curation-style services such as BFI Player, IFC Unlimited, the Criterion Channel or MUBI - the latter, which forms the focus of this book, claims to be the world's most subscribed independent video on demand service. These platforms take advantage of common anxieties about algorithms, cultural surplus and filter bubbles to promote discovery, human-generated recommendations and quality over quantity of content. Deploying an original, holistic methodology that includes analysis of technological affordances, marketing rhetoric, business models, interviews with company executives and a qualiquantitative audience study, this book critically analyses MUBI as a way to understand this particular mode of content aggregation, cultural recommendation, choice architecture and community building. Curation services address a real, but decidedly circumscribed gap in the market. Ultimately, MUBI offers film, media and business scholars an instructive example of the fate of art cinema and media diversity in a digital culture increasingly dominated by a few giant tech companies. Mattias Frey is Professor of Film, Media and Culture at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author or editor of eight books, including The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism (2015); Film Criticism in the Digital Age (co-edited with Cecilia Sayad, 2015); and Netflix Recommends: Algorithms, Film Choice, and the History of Taste (2021). 606 $aMotion picture industry 606 $aTelevision broadcasting 606 $aDigital media 606 $aFilm and Television Industry 606 $aDigital and New Media 615 0$aMotion picture industry. 615 0$aTelevision broadcasting. 615 0$aDigital media. 615 14$aFilm and Television Industry. 615 24$aDigital and New Media. 676 $a338.47621388332 676 $a384.55502854678 700 $aFrey$b Mattias$0849282 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495187803321 996 $aMUBI and the curation model of video on demand$91896753 997 $aUNINA