FILM NOIR

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters

Example:

film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("film noir" is a kind of...):

film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)

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