FILM ATLAS

Film atlas

An index of 147 films, with shot analysis, concept explanations, stills, scholarship, and viewing links. Search by title, director, concept, or viewing source, then open a film to read its analysis.

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Films and analyses

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Scholarly research

24 City

二十四城记 · 2008

Jia Zhangke / 贾樟柯 · China

powers of the falsetestimonydocument / fiction

Factory 420 is being demolished, so the place named by testimony disappears from the image while it is being narrated. Workers and performers including Joan Chen, Lü Liping, and Zhao Tao share the same frontal interview form. The film neither lets professional identity settle truth nor equates performance with deceit; dialect, pause, facial detail, old photographs, popular songs, and demolition dust test one another. Here the power of the false does not abolish history. It forces history to acknowledge that urban memory can only be produced among heterogeneous tellings.

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SCENES · 16 DOSSIERS

Film stills and scene analysis

64 scene analyses describe images, sounds, characters’ actions, and temporal relations. Bilibili viewing links accompany 16 of the films.

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FILM ARGUMENTS · 3

Theory unfolds inside the shot

Each essay begins with continuous scenes and connects them to primary passages, seminar records, cited scholarship, and atlas analysis.

Brief mention by Deleuze · 1948Germany Year ZeroRuins, historical sound, sensory-motor rupture, and the child seer Deleuze primary text · 1963Pour la suite du mondeOral memory, the beluga hunt, fabulation, and a people to come Atlas analysis · 2004Tropical MaladyRupture, soundscape, queer time, and becoming in Tropical Malady

01A flashback is not direct time

Ask whether it merely supplies causal information; time becomes the issue only when distinct sheets of past coexist without reducing to one recollection.

02A mirror is not automatically a crystal

A mirror is only a formal clue; a crystal requires actual and virtual to exchange while remaining indiscernible.

03A long take does not automatically present time

Duration is not the conclusion; ask whether persistence, waiting, and intervals subordinate movement to time rather than merely slowing action.

Edition, source-label, and viewing notes

Timecodes refer to the edition named in each entry. Primary-text locators distinguish Minnesota 1989 from Bloomsbury Revelations 2013; scene analyses and bibliography records have direct links. Research library

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Film identification and viewing

Poster / title card

Title, year, and director distinguish films with the same name. Posters include their source; original title cards are labelled separately.

Douban lookup

Search by title and year for film records, cast, and edition details.

Features and excerpts

Viewing links distinguish features from excerpts. Part numbers, film start times, subtitles, login requirements, and region restrictions appear beside the relevant link.

Deleuze primary text

Primary conceptual case

Deleuze directly uses the film to establish, distinguish, or deepen a concept.

Brief mention by Deleuze

The film appears in Cinema 2 as a brief example, list item, or supporting mention.

Scholarly research

Cited later scholarship

Established by a named monograph, article, or special issue.

Atlas analysis

Conceptual interpretations and comparisons developed from specific shots.

ONLINE FILM SOURCE RESEARCH

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Viewing links: 155
Version: Features, excerpts, restorations, and altered cuts
Bilibili sources: 108