Quantum Screens

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.

• 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 LifeChapter 3. Outsiders, Forking Paths, Healing Oxymorons: The OA, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindPart II. Nonlinear Historical Chapter 4. History Don’t Teach: The Nonlinear Heritage Society: The Romanoffs, Cloud Atlas, BlacKkKlansmanChapter 5. Teleology Unstuck: The Not-So-Grand Narrative: Westworld, ArrivalChapter 6. Journey’s End: WatchmenAfterword. Real and Fictive, Scientific and Poetic Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Mediography Index

"Quantum Screens is original and its scholarship scrupulous. It is an important, well-argued, and exceedingly well-written book that could change the way we look at cinema. - David Cook, author of A History of Narrative Film"This is a fascinating book about the intersection of some aspects of science, especially quantum physics, and art, in particular film and television shows. Nochimson's beautiful conceptualization of the creative accomplishments of cinema and television, in their affinity with and grounding in the new and strange nature of reality that is theorized by mathematics and physics, resets and enlarges our understanding of the achievements of both science and art. There really is nothing quite like it in the field." - Jason Jacobs, author of The Intimate Screen"The author's analysis of episodes 17 and 18 of The Return, in particular, is riveting." - The Film Stage