{"id":149,"date":"2016-10-03T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/10\/03\/what-does-netflixs-shrinking-library-mean-for-film-history-literacy\/"},"modified":"2016-10-03T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:56:00","slug":"what-does-netflixs-shrinking-library-mean-for-film-history-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/10\/03\/what-does-netflixs-shrinking-library-mean-for-film-history-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Netflix&#8217;s shrinking library mean for film history literacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/exstreamist.com\/the-numer-of-titles-in-the-netflix-library-is-down-50-over-the-past-four-years\/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-hiH4fzWxe-c\/V_Lh_iGPzhI\/AAAAAAAACnI\/lgMC_ct4KS0T784p0IusGRAIza12ZGmZwCLcB\/s500\/doctorsjones.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Even with our collection of 14,000 DVDs, we&#8217;ll all admit to watching things on Netflix and Hulu all the time. Streaming subscriptions are convenient, and we&#8217;re realizing that it&#8217;s their primary way that many incoming students watch movies and television now. But we&#8217;re concerned about how that narrows what movies and television people can watch.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Exstreamist, <a href=\"http:\/\/exstreamist.com\/the-numer-of-titles-in-the-netflix-library-is-down-50-over-the-past-four-years\/\">Netflix&#8217;s library has shrunk by 50% in the last four years<\/a>. As Netflix has pursued its own original shows and movies, the company has started cutting back on titles by other studios. Today, by Exstreamist&#8217;s estimates, Netflix has lost over 5000 titles since 2012, and <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/selectall\/2016\/08\/the-nightmare-world-of-leo-the-lion-netflixs-worst-movie.html\">the ones that are left aren&#8217;t exactly the greatest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This could have a serious chilling effect on what people watch. Consider the <i>Indiana Jones<\/i> movies. None are available on any American streaming service unless you pay for a rental. If media consumption habits become more and more reliant of what&#8217;s available to stream immediately, that cuts off a massive amount of film and television history. And what about independent films that can&#8217;t break onto a streaming platform?<\/p>\n<p>We hope there&#8217;s a change in viewing patterns soon. But the library&#8217;s collection will always have physical copies  that won&#8217;t be removed at the end of the month.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with our collection of 14,000 DVDs, we&#8217;ll all admit to watching things on Netflix and Hulu all the time. Streaming subscriptions are convenient, and we&#8217;re realizing that it&#8217;s their primary way that many incoming students watch movies and television now. But we&#8217;re concerned about how that narrows what movies and television people can watch. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[86,212],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-controversial","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}