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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Curation as Discourse, Trend and Cultural Salve -- "Too Much": Curation as Salve to Perceptions of Cultural Surplus -- References -- Chapter 3: The Curation Business Model -- Key Traits of Curation-Style VOD Platforms -- References -- Chapter 4: MUBI History: Connections, Community and Curation -- Phase I: Start-up Period (2007-2012) -- Phase II: Curated Thirty-Film SVOD Model (2012-2020) -- Phase III (2020-Present)? Vertical Integration and the End of Curation -- References -- Chapter 5: Recommendation Credibility in the MUBI Interface -- Ethos and Textual Mode of Address -- Design and Streaming Quality -- Film Presentation and Recommendation Explanation -- Community-Building Exercises -- Curation, Staff Credibility and Anti-Hierarchical Gatekeeping -- References -- Chapter 6: The MUBI Audience -- References -- Chapter 7: At the End of the Long Tail -- Data and Desires for Human(ist) Gatekeeping -- Success of MUBI, Failure of Curation VOD? -- References -- References -- Index.

"Algorithmic recommender systems, deployed by media companies to suggest content based on users' viewing histories, have inspired hopes for personalized, curated media, but also dire warnings of filter bubbles and media homogeneity. Curiously, both proponents and detractors assume that recommender systems are novel, effective, and widely used methods to choose films and series. Scrutinizing the world's most subscribed streaming service, Netflix, this book challenges that consensus. Investigating real-life users, marketing rhetoric, technical processes, business models, and historical antecedents, Mattias Frey demonstrates that these choice aids are neither as revolutionary nor alarming, neither as trusted nor widely used, as their celebrants and critics maintain. Netflix Recommends illustrates the constellations of sources that real viewers use to choose films and series in the digital age, and argues that, although some lament AI's hostile takeover of humanistic cultures, the thirst for filters, curators, and critics is stronger than ever"--

From Shortbus to Shame and from Oldboy to Irreversible, film festival premieres regularly make international headlines for their shockingly graphic depictions of sex and violence. Extreme Cinema draws from interviews with film festival programmers, distributors, critics, and directors to demonstrate how these seemingly transgressive films actually operate within a strict set of codes and conventions, translating global notoriety into success within a competitive marketplace, and perpetuating a system that runs on provocation.

Introduction -- Rebirth of a nation: Das Wunder von Bern, the 1950s, and the reactions to the new German cinema -- Pop retro-vision: Baader, Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, and the RAF film -- The ambivalent view: 23, historical paranoia, and the 1980s -- "Ostalgie," historical ownership, and material authenticity: Good bye, Lenin! and Das Leben der Anderen -- Unification, spatial anxiety, and the recuperation of material culture: Die unberhrbare -- The future of the German past

Brazilian-Portuguese translation of 'The New Democracy?: Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Twitter, and IMDb' from Film Criticism in the Digital Age (Frey and Sayad, eds., 2015).