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Streaming’s Skip Intro Function as a Contradictory Refuge for Television Title Sequences
- The Velvet Light Trap
- University of Texas Press
- Number 90, Fall 2022
- pp. 38-50
- Article
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ABSTRACT:
This article argues that streaming television’s “skip intro” function, although designed to allow audiences to forego title sequences, has created a space for theme music and title sequences. In doing so, it preserves the cultural technology of theme music and furthers audience control in a time of changing viewing habits and increasing binge-watching. In the creation of this space, one sees how portals are embracing a hybrid model of linear and nonlinear television in order to create a feeling of agency that is increasingly key in practices of post-network television.