Primary sources first
Definitions begin with the Minuit French edition, standard translations, and Deleuze’s seminar archive. Secondary scholarship explains disputes and extensions; it does not retroactively rewrite the primary text.
METHOD / EDITION / RIGHTS
Accuracy is not a tone; it is a visible editorial system
The atlas begins from the supplied global research review and checks claims against publishers, university archives, DOIs, peer-reviewed journals, film institutions, and rights holders. It distinguishes facts, scholarly interpretations, and editorial research propositions.
Stable concept keys
The glossary aligns French, English, preferred Chinese, regional variants, rationale, and misuse warnings. Published translations document traditions; community corpora aid discovery; neither is disguised as a sole authority. Virtual names a fully real virtual state, never falsity.
Tiered film evidence
P1 = primary conceptual analysis; P2 = primary brief mention; S1 = cited later scholarship; E1 = an editorial research proposition. Curatorial programmes, course lists, and retrospectives cannot prove that Deleuze discussed a film.
No false global total
The scholar map is a verifiable sample with inclusion rules. A one-off citation, keyword hit, or affiliation does not establish depth, nationality, or region of study.
Access labels are controlled
A page loading does not make it open access. The atlas distinguishes OA full text, lawful preview, abstract, catalog, purchase, subscription, and mixed routes.
Rights and accessibility together
Video links prioritize public material from rights holders and are never rehosted. YouTube/Vimeo entries also receive text summaries and source pages, so connectivity problems are not answered with infringement.
Evidence nodes and edges separately
Relation maps use P1 primary relations, S1 secondary reconstructions, X1 cross-text syntheses, and E1 editorial models. A concept occurring in a primary text does not make every arrow drawn from it a primary-source fact.
Separate headings, house terms, and pages
Published headings are transcribed verbatim while house terminology receives a separate guide field. Print pages, PDF-viewer pages, and language editions remain distinct; surrogate pagination is never presented as universal book pagination.
Research inputs are not a public asset pack
Supplied PDFs and Keynote files may support internal collation, relational redraws, and original analysis. The status of a formally published print edition does not make a third-party scan an official e-book; local paths, full scans, and unverified video links remain unpublished.
SUPPLIED RESEARCH REVIEW
What the supplied review contributes
The review establishes a three-level researcher definition, a conservative 55+ sample, four decades of development, five major pathways, and seven core disputes. The site converts this long-form argument into searchable people, works, concepts, and debates.
The review also identifies Anglophone visibility bias, name normalization, disciplinary boundaries, and the gap between citation counts and theoretical depth. These limits remain visible as methodological fields rather than buried footnotes.
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VERSION LEDGER
Versions and known limits
A public research site should not pretend to be complete. Explicit limits are what make growth possible.
Current edition1.1 · 2026-08-12
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
Not providedPirated scans, third-party full films, unauthorized still packs, or false-precision global counts
HOW TO CITE
Suggested citation
P4 Theater, “Time-Image Research Atlas: A Bilingual Map of Deleuze’s Time-Image,” public research edition 1.1, 2026-08-12, https://deleuze.p4theater.cn. For specific concepts, films, or resources, also cite the primary source listed in the relevant record.
The atlas supports navigation, teaching, and preliminary verification; it does not replace primary texts, films, or formal scholarly citations.
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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