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Children in Eastern Europe are targeted by a steadily growing flow of media content. What types of films and television programs have been available in a region that emerged from “behind the iron curtain” in 1989? This chapter discusses the recent evolution of Hungarian children’s television and describes the key mechanisms by which Hungarian children’s television has become increasingly integrated into the global media industry as well as the challenges the industry has faced along the way.
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Special thanks to Éva Kovács (University of Pécs, Hungary) and Zoltán Varga (independent media scholar, Hungary), for their invaluable help on providing information about the contemporary children’s media landscape in Hungary.
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Lustyik, K. (2019). The Iron Curtain Opens: The History of Hungarian Children’s Television in Five Acts. In: Hermansson, C., Zepernick, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Children's Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17620-4_22
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