Primary sources first
Definitions begin with the Minuit French edition, standard translations, and Deleuze’s seminar archive. Secondary scholarship explains disputes and extensions.
METHOD / EDITION / RIGHTS
A visible editorial system supports accuracy
A global research review provides the foundation; publishers, university archives, DOIs, peer-reviewed journals, film institutions, and rights holders support claim-level verification. Primary evidence, scholarly interpretation, and atlas analysis carry separate labels.
Stable concept keys
The glossary aligns French, English, atlas terms, regional variants, semantic boundaries, and edition evidence. Published translations document traditions; community corpora support discovery. Virtual names a fully real virtual state.
Tiered film evidence
Primary conceptual analysis, brief primary mentions, cited later scholarship, and atlas research propositions are shown separately. Curatorial programmes, course lists, and retrospectives may support atlas propositions; films discussed by Deleuze are further distinguished as conceptual cases or brief examples.
Verifiable researcher sample
The scholar map uses explicit inclusion criteria: sustained work, reconstruction, critique, or influential new concepts. Region records affiliation.
Tiered access status
Access fields distinguish OA full text, lawful preview, abstract, catalog, purchase, subscription, and mixed routes.
Rights and accessibility together
Official carriers and user repost gateways carry separate labels. Key stills bind film, timecode, and source page for scene-level analysis; public records retain rights status, territorial limits, and screening terms.
Evidence nodes and edges separately
Relation maps distinguish Deleuze's primary text, scholarly reconstruction, cross-text synthesis, and atlas analysis; nodes and edges carry separate sources.
Separate headings, atlas terms, and pages
Published headings are transcribed verbatim; atlas terms receive a separate guide field. Print pages, PDF-viewer pages, and language editions remain distinct.
Research inputs for internal collation
Internal materials: supplied PDFs, Keynote files, and third-party image scans. Public outputs: original analysis, redrawn relations, bibliographic data, and page coordinates. Full scans, local paths, and videos with unclear rights remain internal.
Scene evidence by field
Scene records separately store visible facts, audible facts, action, time, criterion, concepts, terms, chapters, primary pages, timecode status, and viewing source. The film carrier establishes image access; primary locators establish the theoretical relation.
SUPPLIED RESEARCH REVIEW
Review scope
The review contains a three-level researcher definition, a conservative 55+ sample, four decades of development, five major pathways, and seven core disputes; these become searchable people, works, concepts, and debate records.
Method fields record Anglophone visibility bias, name normalization, disciplinary boundaries, and the distinction between citation counts and theoretical depth.
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VERSION LEDGER
Versions and known limits
Each edition records current coverage and languages awaiting expansion.
Current edition1.3 · 2026-08-13
Languages简体中文 / English
Priority coveragePrimary texts, English/French scholarship, Chinese research, legal film gateways
Needs expansionSystematic bibliometrics for Russian, Arabic, South Asian, and African journals, plus deeper coverage of current Japanese, Korean, German, and Latin American nodes
Publication boundaryLawful sources, original analysis, verifiable samples, and versioned counts
HOW TO CITE
Suggested citation
P4 Theater, “Time-Image Research Atlas: A Bilingual Map of Deleuze’s Time-Image,” public research edition 1.3, 2026-08-13, https://deleuze.p4theater.cn. For specific concepts, films, or scenes, also cite the primary source listed in the relevant record.
Citation path: atlas record + the listed primary text, film, or formal scholarly source.
Found an error, dead link, or important omission?
Prepare a verifiable source, the exact field to change, and suggested wording, then submit through P4 Theater’s official contact route. Later editions will preserve a revision ledger.
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