{"product_id":"quantum-screens-nonlinear-universes-in-film-and-television-9781477333822","title":"Quantum Screens: Nonlinear Universes in Film and Television","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Begin at the beginning and keep going until the end. That's the cardinal rule of conventional storytelling. But ever since the modernists of the early twentieth century, popular narratives have occasionally eschewed this linear approach to temporality. It's as though our stories, formerly unfolding in the stable, predictable universe of Newtonian physics, can now take place in multidimensional time where anything and anyone can be as incalculable as Schrödinger's cat. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuantum Screens\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003e2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eQuantum Screens\u003c\/i\u003e takes us deep into the audience's experience of nonlinearity, exploring the emotional dislocations such storytelling creates, using television programs such as \u003ci\u003eTwin Peaks\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWestworld\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWatchmen\u003c\/i\u003e, and films including \u003ci\u003eThe Tree of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlacKkKlansman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eArrival\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNo End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDavid Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTelevision Rewired: The Rise of the Auteur Series.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179973701906,"sku":"9781477333822","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c2b9fd11-7961-4a6d-92a1-b99fc8f96896.jpg?v=1775641376","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/quantum-screens-nonlinear-universes-in-film-and-television-9781477333822","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}