Cover -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Making the Waves: Cinema as Performance -- Prescient Affects: The Student Films -- Hypnotic Virtuosity: The Europe Trilogy -- Performative Politics: Dogme95 and The Idiots -- Subverting the Kingdom: Television -- 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) -- Interview with Lars Von Trier -- Interview, September 2006 -- Interview, October 2007 -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index.