Michael Haneke is one of the most important directors working in Europe today. The Cinema of Michael Haneke offers a comprehensive examination of the director's central themes and preoccupations - bourgeois alienation, modes and critiques of spectatorship, the role of the media -and analyses hitherto marginalized aspects of Haneke's work.<BR><BR>Ben McCann is senior lecturer in French Studies at the University of Adelaide<BR><BR>David Soria is senior lecturer in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University and managing editor of the journal Film-Philosophy