Film Noir Definition

fĭlm nwär
film-noirs, film-noir, films-noirs
noun
A type of film, esp. of the 1940s and 1950s, fatalistic, pessimistic, or cynical in mood and often dealing melodramatically with urban crime and corruption.
Webster's New World
A film of this type.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Film Noir

Noun

Singular:
film noir
Plural:
film-noirs, films-noirs

Origin of Film Noir

  • French film film (from English film film) noir black (from Old French) (from Latin niger, nigr- nekw-t- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French film noir (literally “black film”)

    From Wiktionary

Film Noir Sentence Examples

  • I love the way Wim Wenders used this song on American Friend, his greatest homage to classic film noir.

  • Welcome to A Question of Sex, a website devoted to the representation of gender in American film noir of the 1940s.

  • Minority Report is the bits and pieces of great film noir.

  • The work of Colleen or Cecile Schott bristles with the mystery and magic of the most abstract of scratchy old film noir incidental soundtracks.

  • The graphical style is simple and the game has taken on a sort of 1930s film noir look to it.

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