{"product_id":"a-year-in-the-country-lost-transmissions-dystopic-visions-alternate-realities-paranormal-quests-and-exploratory-electronica-9781916095243","title":"A Year In The Country: Lost Transmissions: Dystopic Visions, Alternate Realities, Paranormal Quests and Exploratory Electronica","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stephen Prince\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Year in the Country\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Year in the Country\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Reference\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLost Transmissions\u003c\/i\u003e weaves amongst brambled pathways to take in the haunted soundscapes of electronica, the rise of the occult in the 1970s, cinema and television's dystopian dreamscapes and hauntological work which creates and gives a glimpse into parallel worlds. It is a recording of a personal journey that delves amongst both the esoteric fringes and mainstream of culture, and which at times holds a shadowed scrying mirror up to the modern world and some of its ills, while also reflecting visions of a hopeful future in its depths. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlongside other experimenters in electronic sound the book explores Boards of Canada's invoking of \"the past inside the present\"; Paul Weller's visiting of Ghost Box Records' elsewhere universe; work by Cosey Fanni Tutti, Hannah Peel and the reformed Radiophonic Workshop, and their collaborations across time with electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire; Dominik Scherrer and Natasha Khan's summoning of \"pastoral spook\" via a hidden language of angels; and takes a trip in the company of fairground and rural ghosts conjured up on records released by Castles in Space. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlongside these it examines the paranormal and \"worlds beyond\" via the semi-lost supernatural-orientated television series \u003ci\u003eLeap in the Dark \u003c\/i\u003ewhich included work by Alan Garner and David Rudkin, Sharron Kraus' contemporary investigations into the preternatural and the conjuring of modern-day phantasms in Luciana Haill's artwork. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book also includes an intertwined consideration of the \"deluxe dystopias\" that can be found in films such as \u003ci\u003eRollerball\u003c\/i\u003e and Andrew Niccol's \u003ci\u003eGattaca\u003c\/i\u003e and prescient views of the future's past \u0026amp; media collusion in film and television including Nigel Kneale's work and the overlooked corners of science fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e* * * \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook chapters: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeap in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, Alan Garner, David Rudkin, Fay Weldon and Russell Hoban: The Rise of the Paranormal \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e77 Posters\/77 Plakatow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuest for Love\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp; \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Haunted Himself\u003c\/i\u003e: The Phantasmagoric World of Polish Film Posters and Other Celluloid Alternate Realities \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoards of Canada: \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Past Inside the Present \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAndrew Niccol's \u003ci\u003eGattaca, In Time\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnon\u003c\/i\u003e: Striving for the Stars and Tales of Near Tomorrows \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAndy Votel's \u003ci\u003eStyles of the Unexpected\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp; Bridge and Tunnel: Revisiting Hauntological Precursors \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRollerball\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThree Days of the Condor\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Anderson Tapes\u003c\/i\u003e: Deluxe Dystopias and the Cinema of Paranoia \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaul Weller's \u003ci\u003eIn Another Room \u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp; Broadcast: Psychedelic Reimaginings \u0026amp; Signposts Towards Ghost Box Records' Elsewhere Universe \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLuciana Haill's \u003ci\u003eApparitions: \u003c\/i\u003e A Modern-Day Conjuring of Dreamlands \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBurial: Spectres of Spectres Awash in a Landscape of Static \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeath Watch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Vision\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Sex Olympics \u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp; \u003ci\u003eNetwork\u003c\/i\u003e: Prescient Views of the Future's Past \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Heartwood Institute's \u003ci\u003eTomorrow's People\u003c\/i\u003e: Exploring Far Off Utopian Flipsides \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDelia Derbyshire, Caroline Katz, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Hannah Peel, The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society, The Radiophonic Workshop \u0026amp; Drew Mulholland\u003ci\u003e: \u003c\/i\u003eForging Bridges Across Time \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael Radford's \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e: Searching for a Last Inch of Space \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCastles in Space, Nick Taylor, Pulselovers, Keith Seatman \u0026amp; Dave Clarkson: Otherly Geometries \u0026amp; Ghosts of the Seaside \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDominik Scherrer \u0026amp; Natasha Khan's Soundtrack for \u003ci\u003eRequiem\u003c\/i\u003e: The Unexpected Appearance of the Language of Angels \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSharron Kraus' \u003ci\u003ePreternatural Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e, Simon Reynolds' \"Haunted Audio\" and Oliver Assayas' \u003ci\u003ePersonal Shopper\u003c\/i\u003e: Journeys on the Edge of Knowing \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e* * * \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book is released as part of the \u003ci\u003eA Year In The Country \u003c\/i\u003eproject, which explores wyrd rural \u0026amp; folk culture, the hidden tales of the land \u0026amp; 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