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film noir Definition


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film noir
noun
    1. cinema.
      A style of cinema film popular in American cinema in the 1940s and 1950s, in which the darker side of human nature is presented, in a bleak and often starkly urban setting.
Etymology: 20c: French, meaning ‘black film‘.



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