The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch - a thrilling guide to cinema and psychoanalysis from the last giant of cultural theory in the twenty-first century.

This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies.

The updated and revised edition of A Choreographer’s Handbook invites readers to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. Burrows’ open and honest prose gives the reader access to a range of principles, exercises, meditations and ideas on choreography that allow artists and dance-makers to find their own aesthetic process.

Provocative new translation by Jean Benedetti. Includes a new foreword by Richard Eyre.