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FILM NOIR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does film noir mean?
• FILM NOIR (noun)
The noun FILM NOIR has 1 sense:
1. a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters
Familiarity information: FILM NOIR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s
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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