NOUN | communication | film noir | a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters |
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Meaning | A movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters. | |
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Example | "film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s" | |
Broader | movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick | 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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