This is a major new study of the films of Luis Buñuel, Surrealist scourge of the bourgeoisie. Uniquely, the book discusses Buñuel in the context of the most recent debates in film studies and presents important new readings of the whole range of his work, from the `popular' Mexican movies of the 1950s to such classics of European cinema as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire, and Belle deJour.