Czechoslovakia: Children´s Media in Transformation

Abstract

This article deals with children´s media (film and literature) in Czechoslovakia from the 1960s through the 1980s. It puts to test the perception of 1968 as not only a culmination of reforms, but also as a watershed between the liberal 1960s and the normalized 1970s/1980s. An analysis of children´s media suggests that changes from the 1960s in perceptions of modern childhood were not reversed after 1968, but rather continued and perhaps even expanded.

Keywords

• children’s literature
• Prague Spring
• normalization
• childhood
• 1968
• communism