Quantum screens : nonlinear universes in film and television / Martha P. Nochimson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nochimson, Martha, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lindelof, Damon, 1973-.

Lindelof, Damon.

Lynch, David, 1946-2025.

Lynch, David.

Motion pictures--Plots, themes, etc.

Motion pictures.

Storytelling--Philosophy.

Storytelling.

Storytelling--Psychological aspects.

Television programs--Plots, themes, etc.

Television programs.

Space and time on television.

Space and time in motion pictures.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Quantum Screens is a journey through the past and present of nonlinear time in film and television. Moving beyond the early experiments of Luis Buñuel and the first nonlinear commercial films, such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Martha Nochimson shows how risk-taking auteurs David Lynch, Damon Lindelof, and Terrence Malik have opened new horizons and a new concept of beauty in storytelling through their revelatory creations. Quantum Screens takes us deep into the audience’s experience of nonlinearity, exploring the emotional dislocations such storytelling creates, using television programs such as Twin Peaks, Westworld, and Watchmen, and films including The Tree of Life, BlacKkKlansman, and Arrival. Indeed, viewers are at the heart of a changing aesthetics of nonlinearity, Nochimson argues. Amid innovations like on-demand viewing, unlimited replay, and binge-watching, the experience of real time is more malleable than ever, and creators are responding by structuring their stories in compelling new ways."-- From De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

Introduction. Intersections: what would Einstein do?

PART I THE HERO'S NONLINEAR JOURNEY

Chapter 1 David Lynch and Unmanifest destiny. Twin Peaks 3

Chapter 2. Terrence Malick's nonlinear book of job. The Tree of Life

Chapter 3. Outsiders, forking paths, healing oxymorons. The OA, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

PART II NONLINEAR HISTORICAL

Chapter 4. History don't teach: the nonlinear heritage society. The Romanoffs, Cloud Atlas, BlacKkKlansman

Chapter 5. Teleology unstuck: the not-so- grand narrative. Westworld, Arrival

Chapter 6. Journey's end Watchmen

Afterword. Real and fictive, scientific and poetic

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Mediography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed March 16, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Nochimson, Martha. Quantum screens.

ISBN:

9781477333396

9781477333402

1477333398

1477333401

OCLC:

1568841862

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license