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This is a posthumously published collection of Nalin Ranasinghe's
sharp analyses of Shakespeare's five heavy dramas: Hamlet, King
John, Julius Caesar, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra. True to
form, Ranasinghe serves up philosophical and literary genius for
the reader's benefit and delight. "I will try to claim that
Shakespeare offers an esoteric vindication of the human soul
itself, not merely poetry, against the looming backdrop of the
Counter-Reformation in Europe and the Puritan perversion of English
Anglicanism. Neither the Scholasticism of the former nor the
fundamentalism of the latter had any sympathy for the claims of men
like Bottom or the Bastard to see beyond the confines of scripture
and sacred social structures. While poetry could indulge in
metaphysical fantasy, it could not take on the status quo without
the assistance of more learned allies; this Shakespeare seems to do
by his re-telling of Classical and English history. As disingenuous
as Bottom (or Erasmus) in this artful use of ignorance and folly to
conceal his serious goals, Shakespeare is thus tying poetry to
history and giving us an alternate, if playful, account of Western
Civilization."
Published in 2013, Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen
Delivery the only compression-related textbook released after 2010,
and it incorporates the latest technologies, including DASH and
HTML5 and new devices such as 4G transmitters for mobile delivery.
This book is written for producers seeking to distribute streaming
video to the widest possible audience, including computers,
smartphones and tablets, and Over the Top (OTT) devices. Written by
Jan Ozer, this book delivers the lessons learned from years of
producing and consulting on streaming, and serving as a
contributing editor to the industry bible, Streaming Media
Magazine. In this book, you will learn:
The fundamentals of video streaming and compression, including
adaptive streaming and H.264 encoding, and new technologies like
DASH, HTML5 and HEVC.
How to configure a single group of files to distribute to
computers, mobile and OTT devices, and when it s better to
customize files for different target platforms.
How to most efficiently produce maximum quality video using tools
like the Adobe Media Encoder, Apple Compressor, Sorenson Squeeze
and Telestream Episode Pro.
How to choose an enterprise class encoder, with extensive
discussions of workflow tools like Telestream Vantage and the
ProMedia Workflow System from Harmonic.
How to choose between setting up your own streaming server or
using an online video platform (OVP) and the most relevant
questions to ask before choosing an OVP service provider.
The best technology options for producing a live event, from
choosing an encoding tool or 4G delivery platform, to choosing a
streaming media server or Live Streaming Service Provider (LSSP)
like Livestream or Ustream.
When to consider using a rich media presentation system like Sonic
Foundry MediaSite or MediaPlatform WebCaster and how to choose
between the available systems.
Which producers need to add closed captions to their streaming
videos and how to do so.
This book is the successor to Ozer s highly regarded Video
Compression for Flash, Apple Devices and HTML5, which has earned a
five-star rating on Amazon and is used as a textbook by many
colleges and universities. Published over two years after Video
Compression, however, Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen
Delivery is almost a complete rewrite, and contains links to the
dozens of product reviews and video tutorials published and
produced by Ozer over the last 24 months.
Set on the West Coast during Bush II's first term, Out of What
Chaos showcases the escapades of Rex and The Brains as they settle
into the Portland rock scene, record their first CD, and tour from
Vancouver to LA behind their chart-topping single, "F U. I Just
Want To Get My Rocks Off." The boys party on, finding their way
amidst the frenzied panorama of twenty-first century America. The
country embraces them in all its crazy glory, from witches to
priests, from groupies to politicians, from drug dealers to porno
stars to college professors. As the band's fame grows, tragedy
strikes, and Freddie finds himself torn between his rock-and-roll
lifestyle and his girlfriend, Sheila Corcoran, whose claim on his
heart continues to grow. In the end, the worlds of love and
celebrity collide, and Freddie must make a decision about how to
live. "This book is more or less what one would expect if Walker
Percy wrote about a cynical rock musician who converts to
Catholicism, and then Nabokov added some of his verbal
pyrotechnics, and then Buster Keaton and the Marquis de Sade and
Lionel Trilling inserted a few extra passages. It is a loving and
yet appalled description of the underground music scene in the
Pacific Northwest. And it is a convincing representation of someone
very, very smart." -Matt Greenfield, The Valve, www.thevalve.org
"In smart, wiry prose, Lee Oser has created a witty Bildungsroman
set in the world of rockers in the Northwest. In a world where the
"choices" offered are life-denying or trivial, Oser negotiates a
set of alternatives for his characters-and his readers." -James
Najarian, Boston College. "Well-versed in the lifestyle, Lee Oser
has crafted a hedonistically spiritual rock'n' roll morality play;
one filled with characters culled from his own musical experience.
Freddie Fontane is the new Holden Caulfield for the wi-fi
generation-registering his every thought and impression upon the
quickly turned page. In a world of transient American Idols, in
relentless pursuit of their Warholian fifteen minutes, Freddie
Fontane is the unfailing pragmatist, searching for truth in a world
of pretense and artifice." -S. P. Clarke, Two Louies magazine.
What was the ethical perspective of modernist literature? How did
Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett represent ethical issues and
develop their moral ideas? Lee Oser argues that thinking about
human nature restores a perspective on modernist literature that
has been lost. He offers detailed discussions of the relationship
between ethics and aesthetics to illuminate close readings of major
modernist texts. For Oser, the reception of Aristotle is crucial to
the modernist moral project, which he defines as the effort to
transform human nature through the use of art. Exploring the
origins of that project, its success in modernism, its critical
heirs, and its possible future, The Ethics of Modernism brings a
fresh perspective on modernist literature and its interaction with
ethical strands of philosophy. It offers many new insights to
scholars of twentieth-century literature as well as intellectual
historians.
What was the ethical perspective of modernist literature? How did
Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett represent ethical issues and
develop their moral ideas? Lee Oser argues that thinking about
human nature restores a perspective on modernist literature that
has been lost. He offers detailed discussions of the relationship
between ethics and aesthetics to illuminate close readings of major
modernist texts. For Oser, the reception of Aristotle is crucial to
the modernist moral project, which he defines as the effort to
transform human nature through the use of art. Exploring the
origins of that project, its success in modernism, its critical
heirs, and its possible future, The Ethics of Modernism brings a
fresh perspective on modernist literature and its interaction with
ethical strands of philosophy. It offers many new insights to
scholars of twentieth-century literature as well as intellectual
historians.
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