Making the waves : cinema as performance -- Prescient affects : student films -- Hypnotic virtuosity : the Europe trilogy -- Subverting the kingdom : television -- Performative politics : Dogme95 and The idiots -- Performing the feminine : Breaking the waves and Dancer in the dark -- (Up)staging the American dream : the USA trilogy (minus one) -- Comedy, automavision, and The boss of it all -- Theatre of cruelty : Antichrist (an epilogue) -- Interviews with Lars von Trier.