Enchanting the cultural landscape

Cathi Unsworth explores the rural dreamscapes, reimagined mythical folklore and shadowed undergrowth of film and television

A Year in the Country Cathode Ray and Celluloid Hinterlands Stephen Prince A Year In The Country 2022 Writer, musician, photographer and cultural pathfinder, Stephen Prince has been mapping hauntological themes in popular culture for the best part of a decade. His umbrella project A Year In The Country encompasses books, albums and a website that catalogue his comprehensive Ordinance Survey of the Wyrd. Previously an urban flâneur, whose journeys into the Soho night were gathered in his Afterhours Sleaze and Dignity photo-journals (2013), Prince turned rural psychogeographer after relocating to his native Derbyshire in 2014. His quest really began, growing up glued to the BBC’s Bagpuss (1974) and Thames Television’s Shadows (1975-8) – programmes that suggested to their wideeyed viewers that a portal into another realm could only be…

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