Childrens Publishing in Cold War France: Hachette in the Age of Surveillance an [Hardcover]

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 Francecovers such events as the campaign waged against the global multi-media phenomenonTarzan; the impact of Cold War tensions on Hachette's publishing of Disney books and comics in French; and studies the translation of series fiction fromNancy DrewtoThe Famous Five,where self-censorship could be a radical and creative process.

Children's Publishing in Cold War Francepresents 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.

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.Sophie Heywoodis 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 S?gur (2011). She has published numerous articlelC: