TERM AND TRANSLATION
opsign / optical sign
opsigneopsign / optical sign
The concise 视符 pairs with 声符; opsigne accompanies first use to mark Deleuze’s cinematic semiotic context.
Atlas working translation
视符
- French term
- opsigne
- English term
- opsign / optical sign
Variants and search terms
- 视觉符号Simplified record
- 光符Simplified record
- 纯视符Simplified record
- 视象符Simplified record
- 視符Traditional record
- 視覺符號Traditional record
- opsignCommon / non-Chinese record
- optical signCommon / non-Chinese record
Conceptual boundary
The opsign marks a pure optical situation; classifying a film still depends on its full set of image-relations, with composition as formal material.
Forms in published editions
- 01视觉符号
《电影2：时间—影像》，谢强、蔡若明、马月译，湖南美术出版社，2004
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Published form visibly checked in the 2004 edition; house prose uses the compact 视符.
Page image visually checked
Sources and translations
- 01Gilles Deleuze, Cinéma 2. L’image-temps, Minuit, 1985
French primary text and terminological baseline.
Read source →Open external source ↗ - 02《电影2：时间—影像》，谢强、蔡若明、马月译，湖南美术出版社，2004
Published Mainland Chinese translation; pagination identifies this edition.
- 03“德勒兹词典”中文社区语料
Community index for discovering regional and historical variants.
Open external source ↗ - 04Time-Image Research Atlas terminology policy, v1
Atlas terms govern prose, aliases remain searchable, and original-language forms accompany first use.
Related concepts and terms
- CONCEPTThe seer
- TERMsonsign / sound sign
- TERMpure optical and sound situation
- TERMtime-image