Resources

http://chinesecinema.voices.wooster.edu/
http://dgeneratefilms.com/cinematalk/cinematalk-chris-berry-on-cultural-revolution-cinema
http://dgeneratefilms.com/critical-essays/cinematalk-a-conversation-with-professor-guo-juin-hong-on-taiwan-cinema-1949-and-documentaries

Books/Articles:
China:
Chris Berry (ed.) – Perspectives on Chinese Cinema (London: BFI Publishing, 1991)
Chris Berry (ed.)  – Chinese Films in Focus (BFI, 2003)
Michael Berry – Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers (2005)
Gary Bettinson (ed.) - Directory of World Cinema: China, (Bristol: Intellect, 2012) 
BFI Compendium: A Century of Chinese Cinema (2014)
The Chinese Cinema Book (BFI, 2011)
Nick Browne, Paul G. Pickowicz, Vivian Sobchack, Esther Yau (eds.) - New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)

Bert Cardullo - Out of Asia: The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiarostami and Zhang Yimou (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008) [on Zhang Yimou]

Chen Kaige - Une jeunesse chinoise (autobiography) (2001)
Rey Chow - Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995)
Sheila Cornelius, Ian Haydn Smith - New Chinese Cinema: Challenging Representations (London: Wallflower Press, 2002)
Dai Qing (translated by Jeanne Tai) – ‘Raised Eyebrows for Raise the Red Lantern’, Public Culture (Winter 1993, Vol. 5, Issue 2, p336)
Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu (ed.) – Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997)
Lu Tonglin - Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China (2001)
Ning Ma -- “Signs of Angst and Hope: history and melodrama in Chinese fifth generation cinema”
Ni Zhen – Memories from the Beijing Film Academy
Tony Rayns - King of the Children and The New Chinese Cinema: an Introduction (London: Faber & Faber, 1989)
Berenice Reynaud – Nouvelles Chines, nouveaux cinémas (1999)
G. Semsel, Xia Hong, Hou Jianping (eds.) - Chinese Film Theory - a Guide to the New Era  (1990)
Jerome Silbergeld – China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Envisioning Asia)
Kwok-kan Tam, Wimal Dissayanake -- New Chinese Cinema (1998)
Esther C. M. Yau –  ‘International Fantasy and the “New Chinese Cinema”’, Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Vol.14, Issue 3, p95, 1993)
Ying Zhu –  Commercialization and Chinese Cinema's Post-wave (2002)
Zhiwei Xiao, Yingjin Zhang –  Encyclopedia of Chinese Film, (London: Taylor & Francis, 2002)
Yingjin Zhang – Chinese National Cinema (2004)
Xuelin Zhou – Young Rebels in Contemporary Chinese Cinema (2007)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/01/china.film/
http://web.archive.org/web/20070416073506/http:/kinema.uwaterloo.ca/ghy-941.htm

Iran:

Bert Cardullo - Out of Asia: The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiarostami and Zhang Yimou (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008) [on Abbas Kiarostami]

Hamid Dabashi - Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present and Future (London and New York: Verso, 2001)

Hamid Dabashi – Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema (New York: Mage, 2007)

Hamid Dabashi – Makhmalbaf at Large

Eric Egan - The Films of Makhmalbaf
Alberto Elena – The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami (London: Saqi, 2005)
Michael Fischer - Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry (2004)
Rose Issa, Sheila Whitaker (eds.) – Life and Art: The New Iranian Cinema (London: National Film Theatre, 1999)
Parviz Jahed (ed.) – Directory of World Cinema: China, (Bristol: Intellect, 2012)

Negar Mottahedeh – Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008)
Saeed-Vafa, Mehrnaz and Rosenbaum, Jonathan – Abbas Kiarostami (2003)

Richard Tapper (ed.) – The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation and Identity (New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002)
Iranian Cinema A Political History...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2000/0107/p13s1.html
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-08-11/entertainment/ca-33156_1_kiarostami-films
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-16-plus-source-guides-iranian-cinema-2002.pdf
http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/abbas-kiarostami/kiarostami_rural_space_and_place/


Taiwan:
John Anderson – Edward Yang (2005)
Chris Berry, Feii Lu (eds.) --- Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After (2010)
Ru-shou Robert Chen, Darrell William Davis (eds.) – Cinema Taiwan: Politics, Popularity and State of the Arts (2007)
Antony Fiant, David Vasse – Le cinéma de Hou Hsiao-hsien : Espaces, temps, sons (2013)
Jean-Michel Frodon – Hou Hsiao-Hsien (2005)
Jean-Michel Frodon – Le cinema d'Edward Yang (2010)
Guo-Juin Hong – Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Richard Suchenski (ed.) – Hou Hsiao-Hsien (2014)
James Udden - No Man an Island: The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-Hsien (2009)
Flannery Wilson - New Taiwanese Cinema in Focus: Moving Within and Beyond the Frame (2015)
Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis – Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005)
Yeh Yueh-Yu – ‘Politics and Poetics of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Films’, Post Script (Winter-Summer 2001, Vol. 20 Issue 2/3, p61)

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/exiles-in-modernity/Content?oid=894839


World Cinema:
Saer Maty Ba, Will Higbee (eds.) -- De-westernizing Film Studies (2012) 
Linda Badley, R. Barton Palmer, Steven Jay Schneider (eds.) - Traditions in World Cinema (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006)
Shohini Chaudhuri – Contemporary World Cinema (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005)
Stephanie Dennison – Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics in Film (2006)
Marijke de Valck – Film Festivals
Natasa Durovicová, Kathleen E. Newman – World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives (2009)
Elizabeth Ezra, Terry Rowden (eds.) -- Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader
Rosalind Galt, Karl Schoonover (eds.) – Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
John Hill, Pamela Church Gibson (eds.) – World Cinema: Critical Approaches (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Franco Moretti - 'Planet Hollywood' (New Left Review, 2001 Link)
Lucia Nagib, Chris Perriam, Rajinder Dudrah (eds.) -- Theorizing World Cinema (I. B. Taurus, 2011)
Bill Nichols – New Cinemas and the Film Festival Circuit
James Tweedie – The Age of New Waves


Other:
World literature:
David Damrosch -- What is World Literature? 

Apter, Emily. Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability. London: Verso, 2013.

** Braun, Rebecca. "Introduction: the rise of the world author from the death of world literature." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Vol. 51. No. 2. University of Toronto Press, 2015.

Brennan, Timothy. At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997.

Casanova, Pascale. “Literature as a World.” New Left Review 31 (2005): 71-90. Rpt. in World Literature: A Reader. Ed. Theo D’haen, César Dominguez, and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen. London: Routledge, 2013. 275-88.

———. The World Republic of Letters. Trans. M. B. Debevoise. 1999. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004.

** Damrosch, David, ed. World Literature in Theory. John Wiley & Sons, 2013. 

Theo D'haen, César Domínguez, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, eds. World Literature - A Reader. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012

Huggan, Graham. The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins. London: Routledge, 2001.

**Marling, William. Gatekeepers: The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960s. Oxford University Press, 2016.

Films:
Stanley Kwan: Yin and Yang, Gender in Chinese Cinema
Iran: A cinematographic revolution
Olivier Assayas doc on HHH
Mark Cousins doc on Iranian Cinema
Tony Rayns doc on Chinese New Wave? (Channel 4, late '80s)


Green = own and/or read in part, strike = read in full.