Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Emergence of Midnight Express as a Film and Phenomenon Chapter 2: Midnight Express as an "Eastern" and Orientalist Discourse Chapter 3: Initial Reception of Midnight Express Chapter 4: The Middle Years: Midnight Express in the 1980s and 1990s Chapter 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