A must-have guide written by Otaku USA Magazine anime expert, collecting the most iconic, contemporary, and "essential" Japanese animated series and films of all time.

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.

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