Stephen Prince

A Year In The Country: Other Worlds (eBook, ePUB)

Searching For Far Off Lands Via Witchcraft Battles, Spectral Streets, Faded Visions Of the Future And The Secrets Of The Stones

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Year In The Country: Other Worlds intertwines and cross pollinates the A Year In The Country project's core exploration of wyrd and hauntological culture with journeys to far off lands and seeks out hidden links in the cultural undergrowth. Amongst other wyrd and far off lands it wanders to the Winter of Discontent witchcraft battles of the 1979 television adaptation of M.R. James' Casting the Runes and the timeslip folk horror Cold War dread of Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense's And The Wall Came Tumbling Down... Takes a trip into the surreal dreamscape pop fantasia of Nancy Sinatra's Movin' With Nancy Television special and spends a night in the triple bill genre melding wonderworld of the Scala cinema... Visits the ghosts of city streets via The Sandbaggers, The Gentle Touch and Adam Scovell's Local Haunts and opens the time capsules of faded history in The Likely Lads and the modernist's photozines... Steps into the shadows of the 1980s secret state cycle of British film and television via Menace Unseen and Bird of Prey and crosses over the thresholds of Kate Bush and Suzanne Cianni's boundary breaking worlds... Unearths the hidden histories of The Profumo Affair, Mitch Glazer's Magic city and Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn and explores the frontier-like autonomous zones of Walter Hill's The Driver, Ryan Andrew Hooper's The Toll and John Michael McDonagh's The Guard... Enters the endless "wilderness of mirrors" espionage games of Andrew Williams' Witchfinder and conjures the lost visions of the future that are buried inside Karyn Kusama's Aeon Flux and Robert Longo and William Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic. The book reflects and records a wide ranging personal cultural journey through the byways, highways, darkened alleys and edgelands of culture and variously visits, revisits and at times brings to the surface the sometimes subterranean themes and culture that have inspired and underpin A Year In The Country's journeys amongst the wyrd spectral tales of culture. A Year In The Country: Other Worlds is released as part of the A Year In The Country project which at its core is an intertwining exploration of the wyrd, eerie and re-enchanted landscape, folk horror, the further reaches of folk music and culture, urban wyrd, the hidden histories and stories of the land and culture and the spectral parallel worlds of hauntology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: A Year In The Country
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781916940079
• Artikelnr.: 75660384

Autorenporträt

"Stephen Prince is a multimedia artist who's been building his own otherworldly visions of Arcadian England under the name A Year In The Country. Both an exploration of a pastoral past and a rumination on a dystopian present, his recordings marry spectral folk to an electronic otherworld, whilst he has written books of non-fiction that investigate the inner-psyche of our collective histories. He is one of our most authoritative and tireless guides... for any self-respecting hauntologist A Year In The Country is a treasure trove of wyrd delights." Thomas Patterson, Sarah Gregory and Ben Graham, Shindig! "A Year In The Country make excellent music and excellent books about all things dark rural, folk horror, liminal England and hauntology." Stuart Maconie, Freak Zone, BBC Radio 6 "A Year In The Country epitomises the confluence of interest and dark synergy between nature, myth, occultism and ghost traces of hauntological memory." Rob Young, The Magic Box "Stephen Prince's impressively comprehensive multimedia project A Year In The Country has explored and documented some of the lesser-trodden pathways between pastoral folk music and Radiophonic electronica, as well as actively contributing to these genres with a succession of hugely enjoyable musical releases. He has created a tangled, overgrown enclave of twisted, rustic oddness and continues to weave his own darkly entrancing magic over the countryside." Bob Fischer, Fortean Times' The Haunted Generation columnist, writing at his website and in Electronic Sound magazine "A Year In The Country is steadily building up a body of work that presents an alternative view of rural Britain and the project's output is consistently fascinating." Psychogeographic Review Press quotes on A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields, also written by Stephen Prince and released as part of the A Year In The Country project: "A new book caught my eye recently - the title A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields, that goes in search of the darker, eerier side of the bucolic countryside dream by looking at films of a certain genre, books, TV series, music; it is great to have this fascinating subject explored so thoroughly and brought together under one title." Verity Sharp, Late Junction, BBC Radio 3 "An excellent compendium of Prince's musings and meditations on all things wyrdly bucolic, uncanny, and elegiac." Simon Reynolds, author of Retromania and Energy Flash