"From fairytales to lifeworlds" - European Children's Film Series in the long 1960s

由于它分析了儿童电影系列作为20世纪60年代长期流行文化的一个杰出类别，从一开始就参照跨国话语关系发展，因此该项目在某些方面具有高度创新性。到目前为止，儿童电影系列还没有成为历史研究的主题，因此该项目将从几个角度为媒体史提供新的见解：在制片人方面，它展示了向娱乐方面的转变，并考虑到儿童的生活世界。就分配问题而言，它通过强调欧洲的交换过程，有助于相对化美国的影响。就消费者而言，它可以指出由于在时间和空间上适应电视消费条件的休闲行为，由于观看习惯的改变及其对家庭和同伴群体内部交流的影响而导致的媒体消费的变化。该项目与一般当代史辩论的兼容性一方面是由儿童电影系列的历史从欧洲视角提供的对民族特征和社会话语的跨国趋同的见解保证的。各国在规范和价值观的尺度以及对慷慨和宽容的理解方面的差异，从方案决定和因此而相关的论述中可以明显看出。另一方面，以欧洲节目贸易为重点的儿童电影系列研究指出，欧洲的文化、经济和政治趋同与合作，在某些情况下甚至跨越铁幕。最后，与大众文化的其他部分相比，儿童电影系列在欧洲框架内表现出更多的社会和认同效应。

Due to its analysis of children´s film series as an outstanding category of the long 1960s popular culture, which developed from the outset with reference to transnational discursive relations, the project is in some aspects highly innovative. Up to now, children´s film series have not been a subject of historical research, so that the project will provide new insights into media history in several perspectives: On the producers´ side it shows the shifts toward aspects of entertainment and taking the lifeworlds of children into consideration. As far as the question of distribution is concerned it contributes to relativize the American impact by underlining European exchange processes. With reference to consumers it can point out the changes of media consumption resulting from a leisure behaviour adapted to the conditions of TV consumption in terms of time and space, from changing viewing habits and from its consequences for communication within families and peer groups.The compatibility of the project to the debates of general contemporary history is guaranteed on the one hand by the insights the history of children´s film series provides into the national characteristics and the transnational convergences of social discourses from a European perspective. Differences in the scale of norms and values and in the understanding of liberality and tolerance in various countries become obvious from programme decisions and the thus connected discourses. On the other hand, the research on children´s film series focusing on the European programme trade points out to cultural, economic and political convergence and cooperation in Europe, in some case even across the Iron Curtain. Finally, more than in other segments of popular culture, children´s film series show socialisational and identificational effects within a European framework.