Agah Enes Yasa

Cinema Capitalism and the Turkish Imagination: Mickey Mouse, Global US Icons, Karagöz, and Cultural Conflict in the 1930s and 1940s

Abstract This article examines the circulation, adaptation, and contestation of US mass culture in early republican Turkey through encounters between Mickey Mouse, Hollywood cinema, and the Ottoman shadow play Karagöz. Although Mickey was the first global icon to enter Turkish ch...