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Kaya-Mutlu, Dilek

The Midnight Express Phenomenon : The International Reception of the Film Midnight Express (1978-2004) / Dilek Kaya-Mutlu. - 1 online resource (155 p.) - Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies .

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE EMERGENCE OF MIDNIGHT EXPRESS AS A FILM AND PHENOMENON -- 2. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS AS AN "EASTERN" AND ORIENTALIST DISCOURSE -- 3. INITIAL RECEPTION OF MIDNIGHT EXPRESS -- 4. THE MIDDLE YEARS: MIDNIGHT EXPRESS IN THE 1980s AND 1990s -- 5. CURRENT RECEPTION OF MIDNIGHT EXPRESS: VIEWER COMMENTS ON THE INTERNET -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX A - CORRECTIVE TURKISH VIEWER COMMENT (IMDb) -- APPENDIX B - MARGINAL RESPONSE (IMDb) -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

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This book studies the film The Midnight Express and analyses how it has negatively altered perceptions of Turkey until the present.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9781617191190 9781463225735

Standard No.: 10.31826/9781463225735 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Prisons--Turkey.
HISTORY / Middle East / General.

LC Class. No.: HV9776.7 / .M885 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 365.9561