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Editorial

List of contents Welcome to the EPOP Project Newsletter. In this


number you will find some information and images about
PROJECT NEWS: THE EPOP the EPOP exhibition, which is currently being held in
EXHIBITION Louvain-la-Neuve and Pescara until the end of April.
p.2 We remind you that we are collecting presentations
from any research group, institution, association, journal,
website, collector or independent scholar working on the
our research field and interested in presenting its activities
on this newsletter.
If you have any suggestions regarding the newsletter
or anything else relating to the project, please contact
federico.pagello@unibo.it.

With our best wishes,

EPOP Project Publication Committee

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Project News: The Exhibition
The EPOP exhibition opened at the Catholic University of Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve
(Belgium) and at the Museo delle Genti d’Abruzzo in Pescara (Italy) at the beginning of April,
and it will close at the end of the month. It is formed by 60 panels divided over twelve sections,
following the structure of the EPOP virtual museum (Introduction, Modes of Productions,
Authors, Readers and Spectators, Young Europe and Old America, Imagery, The Urban
Mysteries, The Adventure Hero, The Fantastic, The Investigator, The Outlaw, The Heroine).

Below are examples from the exhibition panels, taken from both the Italian and the French
versions of the exhibition.

1) THE INTRODUCTION

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2) MODES OF PRODUCTION 3) AUTHORS

4) READERS AND SPECTATORS 5) YOUNG EUROPE AND OLD AMERICA

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6) IMAGERY 7) THE URBAN MYSTERIES

8) THE ADVENTURE HERO 9) THE FANTASTIC

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10) THE INVESTIGATOR 11) THE OUTLAW

12) THE HEROINE 13) CREDITS

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About the Project:
The EPOP Project (Popular Roots of European Culture Through Film, Comics and Serialized Literature)
is a research and popularization project funded by the European Commission’s Culture
Programme 2007 and is promoted by the Department of Music and Performing Arts of the
University of Bologna, the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Limoges, Pallas /
Institute for Cultural Disciplines of the University of Leiden, the GRIT (Groupe des Recherche
sur l’Image et le Texte) of the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, and the Department for
Culture of the Province of Pescara. The project started on 24 November 2008 and will be
completed on 24 May 2010.

About this Newsletter:


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