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"As part of the “Vendredis Curieux” series.
With Zoe Stibbe, a researcher at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University."
Media manipulation is nothing new.
When the Spanish Civil War broke out in July 1936 following a failed coup against the Republic, children became a target. “We must win over the child’s soul,” wrote the Falangist daily *Amanecer* in November 1936.
We shall see how children’s weeklies in the Francoist zone reflected the future policy of the ‘New Spain’ through
the militarisation of young boys and the domestication of young girls.
Children were taught to glorify a prescribed set of images, whilst being incited to hate the ‘red’ enemy. However, we shall also see that the children’s press reflects the differences existing within the Francoist camp itself.
Zoé Stibbe is a researcher at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University within the
Centre for Research on Contemporary Spain (CREC) and a qualified teacher of Spanish.
Her work focuses primarily on children’s press published during the Spanish Civil War
by the Francoist camp and on propaganda mechanisms
targeted at children. Another strand of her research concerns forms of
traditionalism in France and Spain (Action française, Communion
Traditionaliste).
