film noir Definition
film· noir (film′ nwär′)
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
Etymology: Fr, lit., black film
film noir Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- classic: I love the way Wim Wenders used this song on American Friend, his greatest homage to classic film noir.
- American: Welcome to A Question of Sex, a website devoted to the representation of gender in American film noir of the 1940s.
- great: Minority Report is the bits and pieces of great film noir.
- old: The work of Colleen or Cecile Schott bristles with the mystery and magic of the most abstract of scratchy old film noir incidental soundtracks.
Modifies a noun
- genre: A detective story set around a contemporary California high school, BRICK dares to combine the teen and film noir genres.
- style: A short crime story in film noir style, set in Nursery Land!
- classic: The Last Seduction is stylish, sexy and recalls film noir classics like Double Indemnity.
- detective: The tutorial adopts a film noir detective metaphor to offer a light hearted guide to developing Internet skills.
- thriller: Dearden directs Victim as a kind of film noir thriller.
- metaphor: The tutorial adopts a film noir detective metaphor to offer a light hearted guide to developing Internet skills.
Noun used with modifier
- 1940s: Tuesday December 6 Dance, acting and murder in the world of 1940s film noir, as Wolverhampton's Arena Theater presents SILENT MOVIE.
- 1930s: The graphical style is simple and the game has taken on a sort of 1930s film noir look to it.
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