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Iranian Cinema

Princeton's Iranian and Persian film holdings

Iranian Film Holdings at PUL

Persian film holdings at PUL

Persian films with "English subtitles"

Selected bibliographies

Middle East Cinema - Duke Univeristy Libraries

Middle Eastern/North African Cinema: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library

Iranian Cinema, Farshid Kazimi. Cinema and Media Studies: Oxford Bibliographies. Ed. Krin Gabbard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

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Selected dictionaries

Persian-English / English-Persian

Persian (film terminology)

General reference

Cinemas of the other [electronic resource] : a personal journey with film-makers from the Middle East and Central Asia / by Goenuel Doenmez-Colin
Collecting movie posters : an illustrated reference guide to movie art-- posters, press kits, and lobby cards / Edwin E. Poole and Susan T. Poole
Although not a reference for Persian film posters, this book does provide useful information on terminology and types of posters.
Companion encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African film / edited by Oliver Leaman
Film in the Middle East and North Africa : creative dissidence / edited by Josef Gugler
Historical dictionary of Middle Eastern cinema / Terri Ginsberg, Chris Lippard ; with contributions by Farshad Aminian ... [et al.]
A hundred years of film adverts and film posters in Iran / Ṣad sāl iʻlān va pūstir-i fīlm dar Īrān

Film reviews

Selected journals

Western

Persian

Selected books

Western

Persian

Arabic

al-Sīnimā al-Īrānīyah al-rāhinah : iḍāʾah ʻalá al-mujtamaʻ al-Īrānī / Nadá al-Azʹharī.