Quantum Screens - Nonlinear Universes in Film and Television

An exploration of how nonlinear storytelling opens a post Newtonian reality and changes both the hero's journey and how we understand history in film and television

List of contents

• List of 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
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Mediography
• Index




About the author










Martha P. Nochimson is a professor emerita of Mercy University, and a former adjunct professor at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is among the adjunct faculty of the David Lynch Graduate Program for Cinematic Arts at the Maharishi International University. She is the author of No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject; The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood; David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire; and Television Rewired: The Rise of the Auteur Series.

Product details

• Authors: Martha P Nochimson
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.03.2026
• EAN: 9781477321379
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-2137-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Weight: 454 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet