EPOP-Lab! - Sito del progetto EPOP

Studies in popular culture of the industrial era represent a field of growing interest throughout all Europe: in the last few decades research in the history of popular literature and its intermedial relationships with visual narrative forms (such as film and comics) has dramatically increased in many national contexts, both inside and outside the academy, producing a proliferation of publications, university courses, websites, public events, networking among collectioners, etc. However, while the urgency of a transnational approach to this phenomenon has been acknowledged everywhere, communication among cultural institutions variously concerned with research and archival preservation in this domain in the different European countries still remains flawed.

The EPOP project aims to surpass the cultural and linguistic boundaries that have prevented until now a true appraisal of the continental dimension of the industrial popular culture produced between Nineteenth and Twentieth century by establishing a transnational network of researchers and institutions working to promote a better knowledge of this particular cultural heritage among EU citizens.