Ben McCann is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and has published widely on French cinema. He is the co-editor of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia (2011), and the author of Ripping Open the Set (2013), Le Jour se lève (2013), Julien Duvivier (2017), and L'Auberge Espagnole: European Youth on Film (2018).

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Synopsis
Introduction
Notes
Context and Planning
Carné and the team
France in the 1930s - The Film Industry and Dominant Genres
Poetic Realism
Filming Le Jour se lève
Notes
2. Structure, Set Design, Style
Structure
Set Design
Style
Notes
3. Performance and Politics
Performance styles
Sequence analysis I: the caf­é-concert (26m. 56s.)
Gender politics
Sequence analysis II: the greenhouse (56m. 14s.)
Class struggles
Sequence analysis III: François's death (1h 19m. 23s.)
A reflectionist film?
Notes
4. Reception and Remake
French reception
Blame the barometer?
International reception
Le Jour se lève remade - 'As dark as a Hallmark card?'
Afterlife I: Whatever happened to Marcel Carné?
Afterlife II: The rise and rise of Le Jour se lève
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Appendix 1: Credits
Appendix 2: Marcel Carné filmography
Appendix 3: Select bibliography