The Journal of Performance Studies (TDR)

• Subject: The Journal of Performance Studies (TDR)
• Date: Sun, 30 Jul 95 11:45:26 EDT

The Journal of Performance Studies (TDR)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 16:28:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Ann Okerson <ann@cni.org>
Subject: announcing - TDR: the journal of performance studies (fwd)
  __________________________________________________________________
   ...You may have never heard us, yet you may be interested in...
  __________________________________________________________________
    ________________      _____________          _____________
   /_______________/|    /____________ \        /____________ \
   |||||||||||||||||/    |||||||||||||\ \       |||||||||||||\ \
          |||| |         |||| |     |||\ \      |||| |     |||\ \
          |||| |         |||| |      |||\ \     |||| |______||||/
          |||| |         |||| |       |||| |    ||||/______||||/
          |||| |         |||| |       ||||/     |||||||||||||\ \
          |||| |         |||| |______||||/      |||| |    ||||\ \
          |||| |         ||||/______||||/       |||| |     ||||\ \
          ||||/          ||||||||||||||/        ||||/       ||||\/
  __________________________________________________________________
  The Journal of Performance Studies  T140 (Winter 1993)

  TDR is a journal that explores the diverse world of performance.
  How does this relate to you? It emphasizes the intercultural, inter-
  disciplinary and spans numerous geographical areas and historical
  periods. TDR addresses performance issues of every kind: theatre,
  dance, entertainment, media, sports, politics, aesthetics of everyday
  life, games, play, and ritual. TDR is for people in the performing
  arts, the social sciences, academics, activists and theorists--anyone
  interested thinking about the "performance" paradigm. The journal, is
  edited by Richard Schechner of the Department of Performance Studies,
  New York University, and is published quarterly by MIT Press.

  Now, TDR has joined the Internet community!

  The TDR_FORUM: on the discussion list Perform-L, you can participate in a
  forum that will focus on the latest issue, with both contributing authors
  and fellow readers. See instructions below.

  You can browse through sample articles on the Electronic Newsstand. You
  subscribe through MIT or the Electronic Newsstand. See directions below.

  Check out our table of contents:
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  // In this issue (T140 - Winter 1993) \\
  ----------------------------------------
  - Towards the 21st Century - a TDR Comment by Richard Schechner (editor)
  - Performing the Texts of Virtual Reality and Interactive  Fiction -
      by J. Yellowlees Douglas
  - Magister Macintosh: Shuffled Notes on Hypertext Writing - by Richard Gess
  - The Word Becomes You: interview with Anna Deavere Smith - by Carol Martin
  - Anna Deavere Smith: Acting as Incorporation - by Richard Schechner
  - Shapiro and Shaliko: Techniques of Testimony - by Richard Kramer
  - Shaliko in Pictures, Shapiro in Words - by Leonardo Shapiro
  - Leaving Town Up and Down - by Leonardo Shapiro
  - Babilonia in Buenos Aires: An Interview with Javier Grosman - by
     Elzbieta Szoka
  - Operation Mallfinger: Invisible Theatre in a Popular Context - by
      Jonathan M. Gray
  - Casting the Audience - By Natalie Crohn Schmitt
  - Happenings in Europe in the '60s - by Gunter Berghaus
  - Book review essays by Richard Trousdell, Edith Turner, and David J. DeRose

  Each TDR issue is provocative in content, with photographs, artwork, and
  scripts illustrating every article. The journal, founded in 1955, is
  7 x 10, and 184 pages per issue.
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  // Join our electronic TDR_Forum on Perform-L \\
  ------------------------------------------------
     We invite you to join us in a discussion of the latest issue of TDR,
     featuring an article by Richard Gess - "Magister Macintosh: Shuffled
     Notes on Hypertext Writing."

     To subscribe to perform-l:
       send e-mail to: mailserv@acfcluster.nyu.edu
       leave the subject
       put only one line in the letter: sub perform-l yourrealname

     To get Gess's article via anonymous ftp:
       ftp acfcluster.nyu.edu
       cd perform
       get tdrgess.txt
       quit

     To get Gess's article via e-mail:
       send email to: mailserv@acfcluster.nyu.edu
       leave subject blank
       put only one line in the letter: send [anonymous.perform]tdrgess.txt
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  // Come browse and subscribe \\
  -------------------------------
  1. The Electronic Newsstand
      You can browse through an article from our latest issue and obtain
      subscription information on the Electronic Newsstand. On Gopher,
      go to: massachusetts/MIT/Interesting Sites to Explore/Electronic

      To subscribe to TDR through the Electronic Newsstand, send your name
      and address to: the_drama_review@enews.com. Or call: 1-800-40-ENEWS.

  2. MIT Press Online
      You can explore the MIT Press Online Catalogue and obtain subscription
      information: telnet techinfo.mit.edu. Choose: Around MIT/MIT press/
      journals/arts/. Through Gopher go to: USA?massachusetts/MIT.

      To subscribe to TDR send e-mail to: journals-orders@mit.edu

      MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1399 USA
      Tel: (617) 253-2889   Fax: (617) 258-6779
  ------------------------------------------------------end of msg---------
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------