001439131 000__ 03848cam\a2200505\i\4500 001439131 001__ 1439131 001439131 003__ OCoLC 001439131 005__ 20230309004412.0 001439131 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001439131 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 001439131 008__ 210826s2021\\\\sz\a\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 001439131 019__ $$a1263988108$$a1264477136 001439131 020__ $$a9783030800765$$q(electronic bk.) 001439131 020__ $$a3030800768$$q(electronic bk.) 001439131 020__ $$z9783030800758 001439131 020__ $$z303080075X 001439131 0247_ $$a10.1007/978-3-030-80076-5$$2doi 001439131 035__ $$aSP(OCoLC)1265301913 001439131 040__ $$aGW5XE$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cGW5XE$$dYDX$$dEBLCP$$dOCLCO$$dUKMGB$$dN$T$$dESU$$dOCLCF$$dUKAHL$$dOCLCQ$$dOCLCO$$dOCLCQ 001439131 049__ $$aISEA 001439131 050_4 $$aTK6679.3 001439131 08204 $$a621.388$$223 001439131 1001_ $$aFrey, Mattias,$$eauthor. 001439131 24510 $$aMubi and the curation model of video on demand /$$cMattias Frey. 001439131 264_1 $$aCham, Switzerland :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c2021. 001439131 300__ $$a1 online resource (1 volume) :$$billustrations (black and white, and color) 001439131 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001439131 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001439131 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001439131 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index, 001439131 5050_ $$a1 Introduction -- 2 Curation as Discourse, Trend and Cultural Salve -- 3 The Curation Business Model -- 4 MUBI History: Connections, Community and Curation -- 5 Recommendation Credibility in the MUBI Interface -- 6 The MUBI Audience -- 7 At the End of the Long Tail. 001439131 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001439131 520__ $$aSubscription video on demand (SVOD) represents the fastest-growing means to consume films and series. Although market leaders Netflix and Amazon Prime have received much scholarly attention for the way that they use algorithms and big data to connect users to content, there is another significant, relatively unexamined model: curation-style services such as BFI Player, IFC Unlimited, the Criterion Channel or MUBI the latter, which forms the focus of this book, claims to be the world's most subscribed independent video on demand service. These platforms take advantage of common anxieties about algorithms, cultural surplus and filter bubbles to promote discovery, human-generated recommendations and quality over quantity of content. Deploying an original, holistic methodology that includes analysis of technological affordances, marketing rhetoric, business models, interviews with company executives and a qualiquantitative audience study, this book critically analyses MUBI as a way to understand this particular mode of content aggregation, cultural recommendation, choice architecture and community building. Curation services address a real, but decidedly circumscribed gap in the market. Ultimately, MUBI offers film, media and business scholars an instructive example of the fate of art cinema and media diversity in a digital culture increasingly dominated by a few giant tech companies. Mattias Frey is Professor of Film, Media and Culture at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author or editor of eight books, including The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism (2015); Film Criticism in the Digital Age (co-edited with Cecilia Sayad, 2015); and Netflix Recommends: Algorithms, Film Choice, and the History of Taste (2021). 001439131 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 001439131 61020 $$aMUBI (Firm) 001439131 650_0 $$aVideo-on-demand. 001439131 650_6 $$aVidéo à la demande. 001439131 655_0 $$aElectronic books. 001439131 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aFrey, Mattias.$$tMubi and the curation model of video on demand.$$dBasingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021$$z9783030800758$$w(OCoLC)1263792170 001439131 852__ $$bebk 001439131 85640 $$3Springer Nature$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-80076-5$$zOnline Access$$91397441.1 001439131 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1439131$$pGLOBAL_SET 001439131 980__ $$aBIB 001439131 980__ $$aEBOOK 001439131 982__ $$aEbook 001439131 983__ $$aOnline 001439131 994__ $$a92$$bISE