Entertainment without Frontiers - Representing and Performing Other Cultures in German, French, and Spanish TV Shows of the 1960s

20世纪60年代，娱乐节目和智力竞赛节目享有极高的收视率，并成为西欧电视文化和家庭仪式的一部分。这些电视形式呈现出两种跨国趋势：1)对异国世界和向往之地的上演，这种上演往往依赖于跨国网络和娱乐艺术家的国际流通；2)创建具有真正欧洲和国际维度的课程，反映欧洲经济和政治一体化的进展。“娱乐无国界”项目考察了德意志联邦共和国、法国和西班牙，并分析了外国文化是如何在上述类型中表现和上演的。因此，研究重点将放在特定国家背景下对他者的感知以及欧洲电视娱乐中的跨国纠缠上。拟议的研究旨在评估美国化和欧洲化进程之间的平衡，并讨论和了解特定文化的挪用形式。

Entertainment programming and quiz-shows enjoyed remarkable audience rates and became an established part of Western European television cultures and family rituals in the 1960s. These TV formats were following two transnational trends: 1) the staging of foreign worlds and places of longing, with this staging often relying on transnational networks and the international circulation of entertainment artists; 2) the creation of programs with a genuinely European and international dimension, mirroring the progressing economic and political European integration. The project Entertainment without Frontiers looks at the Federal Republic of Germany, at France, and at Spain, and analyzes how foreign cultures are represented and staged in the genres mentioned above. The research focus will thus be on the perception of otherness in specific national contexts as well as on transnational entanglements in European TV entertainment. The proposed study aims at an assessment of the balance between processes of Americanization and Europeanization and at discussing and understanding culture specific forms of appropriation.