Childrens Publishing in Cold War France

Exploring the history of Cold War censorship legislation and its impact on the French publishing industry for children, this open access book focuses on the publisher Hachette to detail how it dominated the country''s new context of surveillance and control. Using extensive new multilingual archive material including legal and business records and US State Department files, Sophie Heywood traces both the history of the French Communist Party''s (PCF) and anti-comics activists'' efforts to prevent American ''propaganda'' reaching the hands of children, and Hachette''s strategic and editorial responses. Children''s Publishing in Cold War France covers such events as the campaign waged against the global multi-media phenomenon Tarzan ; the impact of Cold War tensions on Hachette''s publishing of Disney books and comics in French; and studies the translation of series fiction from Nancy Drew to The Famous Five, where self-censorship could be a radical and creative process. Children''s Publishing in Cold War France presents a timely historical study of how states and political campaigners seek to control children''s access to culture, and the legacies of such conflicts. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Reading.

Préface
The first book to explore the history of and the enduring legacy of Cold War censorship on French literature for young readers and the transatlantic publishing industry for children.

Auteur
Sophie Heywood is Associate Professor in French and a founding co-director of the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing at the University of Reading, UK. She specializes in the history of comparative children's literature and publishing. Her first monograph was a literary and publishing history of iconic French children's author, the Comtesse de Ségur (2011). She has published numerous articles and book chapters in English and French in internationally rated history journals, international children's literature publications. Her research has been funded by prestigious grant bodies including the Carnegie Trust, the Institute for Historical Research and the Leverhulme Trust.

Contenu

Introduction
Chapter 1. Rewriting the Law: The Anti-Comics Campaigns enter the Cold War
Chapter 2. Taming the Ape Man: The Commission for Surveillance and Control Finds its Voice
Chapter 3. The 'Little Mickeys' in the Cold War: Hachette and the Expansion of Disney's Global Empire
Chapter 4. The Hachette Fiction Factory: Making children's books in the productivity era
Chapter 5. Policing the Borders: Editorial Mediations on the Assembly Line

Bibliography
Index