A Year In The Country - Prince, Stephen
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A Year In The County: Threshold Tales is an exploration of the edgelands, borderlands and liminal places in film, of the places both literal and in the mind as well as culturally and amongst the paranormal realm where the boundaries between worlds, ways of life, the past and the future become thin and porous. The book wanders amongst the overlooked, the hidden from view, isolated spaces and parallel planes of existence in cinema, taking in films that interconnect with both rural and urban "wyrd" culture from the shores of Albion out into the American Deep South and across the snowbound…mehr

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A Year In The County: Threshold Tales is an exploration of the edgelands, borderlands and liminal places in film, of the places both literal and in the mind as well as culturally and amongst the paranormal realm where the boundaries between worlds, ways of life, the past and the future become thin and porous. The book wanders amongst the overlooked, the hidden from view, isolated spaces and parallel planes of existence in cinema, taking in films that interconnect with both rural and urban "wyrd" culture from the shores of Albion out into the American Deep South and across the snowbound landscapes of Europe. Amongst its pages, you'll find a wide-ranging interthreaded journey that takes in the woodland wraiths of Without Name and The Watcher in the Woods , Columbus' love letter to a time capsule of modernist architecture, Nadja and Vampir-Cuadecuc's media phantom reimaginings of their genres, Dark Tower's concrete bound haunting, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai's intertwining of spectral hip-hop with ancient Japanese tradition, No Surrender's black comedy set amongst 1980s urban decay, the creating and discovering of new worlds of electronic sound in The Shock of the Future and the seductive temptations of a preternatural carnival in Something Wicked This Way Comes. Elsewhere, the book explores the folk horror precursor The White Reindeer, journeys through an American wyrd frontier in Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Stephen Poliakoff's unearthing of buried secrets in Hidden City and Glorious 39, a rudderless tumbling down the rabbit hole in Kate and Laura Mulleavy's Woodshock and the thinning of the barriers of time and place in Mike Hodges' Black Rainbow. * * * The full chapter list is below: 1. Without Name: Stepping Over the Threshold of a Liminal Landscape 2. Dark Tower: Otherworldy Dysfunction 3. Columbus: Stasis and Escape Amongst Faded Utopian Dreams 4. The White Reindeer: A Folk Horror Precursor 5. The Watcher in the Woods and Something Wicked This Way Comes: Disney Darkness and the Curious Shadowed Side Paths of the House of Mouse (and an Intriguing Sidestep to British Housing Estates) 6. Nadja and Vampir-Cuadecuc: Hinterland Vampire Hunters and Spectral Hallucinatory Genre Flipsides 7. The Shock of the Future: Creating and Discovering New Electronic Worlds 8. Stephen Poliakoff's Hidden City and Glorious 39: Unearthing Buried Secrets 9. Mike Hodges' Black Rainbow: The Thinning of the Barriers of Time and Place 10. No Surrender and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai: Views and Stories from the Rooftops and Urban Edgelands 11. Kate and Laura Mulleavy's Woodshock: A Rudderless Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole 12. Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus: Journeys Through an American Wyrd Frontier * * * The book is part of the A Year In The Country project which explores "otherly pastoral" rural culture and its intertwining with "urban wyrd" and the parallel worlds of hauntology.
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Press quotes on A Year In The Country releases/Stephen Prince: "Author 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 investigates the inner-psyche of our collective histories." Thomas Patterson, Shindig! "A Year In The Country has been steadily building up a body of work that presents an alternative view of rural Britain, the project's output is consistently fascinating." Psychogeographic Review "Audio Albion is the latest brilliant release in an ongoing project to map landscape and memory through eerie instrumentals and twisted takes on folk culture." Jude Rogers, The Guardian 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: "Stephen Prince's densely packed tome covers everything from folkloric film and literature to electronic music to acid folk to folk horror to the dystopian fiction of John Wyndham and the classic unearthings of Nigel Kneale to the formation of under-the-furrows record labels like Trunk, Ghost Box and Finders Keepers... This incredibly well-researched book, which is obviously written by a man with an enormous passion for this subject, is probably as comprehensive as it is possible to be... Books this culturally valuable don't grow on hedgerows, so make sure you harvest it immediately." Ian White, Starburst "Author Prince has pulled together a mass of material culled not only from the website and its associated albums, but also a great deal more that was written specifically for the book. And the result is spellbinding." Dave Thompson, Goldmine "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 The book was also selected for Electronic Sound magazine's Top Ten books of the year in 2018.