Carefully detailed screen shots and step-by-step directions illustrate how to use Encore DVD software in a time-efficient way. Readers learn to harness the full scope of Encore DVD's functions, including importing and organizing content to build the DVD, using Photoshop to create menus, and finish authoring. Professional tips about workflow and other topics are also provided throughout.

Spoiled Distinctions investigates crises of evaluation in twentieth-century France. Taking Marcel Proust as its central figure, the book theorizes the disorienting force of everyday aesthetic experience. In a series of surprising readings, Hannah Freed-Thall frees Proust from his reputation as the most refined of high modernists. The author of In Search of Lost Time appears here as a journalist and newspaper enthusiast, a literary ventriloquist and connoisseur of popular scandals, and a writer attentive to the unsophisticated phenomenology of the here and now. The final chapters of the book consider the legacy of Proust's experiments with inestimable worth. Authors Francis Ponge, Nathalie Sarraute, and Yasmina Reza also explore the underside of cultural distinction. With Proust, they elaborate modernist variations on the beautiful and sublime--from nuance to the "whatever" and from the awkward to the sickly-sweet. Spoiled Distinctions thus revitalizes the critical discourse on aesthetics. Mapping the intersection of phenomenology, aesthetic theory, and the sociology of culture, the book reveals how enchanting the ordinary can be.

mgversion2>datura issue 80 April 2015, I'm on Fire Je suis en feu. Gary Beck - Cédric Bernard - Alexandra Bouge - Sophie Brassart - Tatjana Debiljacki - Jean-Claude Goiri - Taylor Graham - Deborah Guzzi - Daniel Y. Harris - Mathias Jansson - Strider Marcus Jones - Steve Klepetar - Marie Lecrivain - Matt McGee - Karla Linn Merrifield - Michel Meyer - James B. Nicola - Norman J. Olson - Peter O'Neill - Basile Rouchin - Wayne Russel - Tom Sheehan - -Matt Sradeja - Beka Steimel - J.J. Steinfeld edited by Walter Ruhlmann (c) mgversion2>datura and contributors