film noirn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌfɪlm ˈnwɑː/, U.S.

/ˌfɪlm ˈnwɑr/

Inflections: Plural film noirs, films noir, films noirs.

Forms: also with capital initials.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French film noir.

Etymology: < French film noir, lit. ‘black film’ (1938 or earlier with pejorative connotations denoting French realist films of the late 1930s characterized as pessimistic, degenerate, or immoral; 1946 or earlier denoting American thrillers and crime films of the 1940s) < film film n. + noir black (see noir adj.).In plural form films noirs after the French plural form.

A. n.

1. A film characterized by a mood of cynicism, fatalism, menace, and moral ambiguity, typically taking place in an urban setting.In English, esp. in later use, the term is chiefly applied to American thriller or crime films made in the period 1944–54 and to the work of directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, and Billy Wilder.

ΚΠ

1950 Sight & Sound May 106/2 But, remembering the deeper tones of Carné's films noirs..one feels that Carné should do better things.

1958 Spectator 25 July 134/2 It [sc. a play] tries to be a parody of a film noir.

1960 Times 9 May 16/4 A school-boy adventure story which turns suddenly and surprisingly into a bleak film noir.

1981 J. Monaco How to read Film (rev. ed.) iv. 253 The most intriguing esthetic result of this dark, paranoiac mood was the cycle of Films Noirs of the late forties and early fifties.

2015 C. Beach Hidden Hist. Film Style iii. 86 The highly expressive and strongly stylized aesthetic..first emerged in film noirs of the early 1940s.

2. A genre of crime film or thriller film characterized by a mood of cynicism, fatalism, menace, and moral ambiguity, and having a (typically American) urban setting.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types

romantic comedy1748

epic1785

pre-release1871

foreign film1899

frivol1903

dramedy1905

film loop1906

first run1910

detective film1911

colour film1912

news film1912

topical1912

cinemicrograph1913

scenic1913

sport1913

newsreel1914

serial1914

sex comedy1915

war picture1915

telefilm1919

comic1920

true crime1923

art house1925

quickie1926

turkey1927

two-reeler1928

smellie1929

disaster film1930

musical1930

feelie1931

sticky1934

action comedy1936

quota quickie1936

re-release1936

screwball comedy1937

telemovie1937

pickup1939

video film1939

actioner1940

space opera1941

telepic1944

biopic1947

kinescope1949

TV movie1949

pièce noire1951

pièce rose1951

deepie1953

misterioso1953

film noir1956

policier1956

psychodrama1956

free film1958

prequel1958

co-production1959

glossy1960

sexploiter1960

sci-fier1961

tie-in1962

chanchada1963

romcom1963

wuxia1963

chick flick1964

showreel1964

mockumentary1965

sword-and-sandal1965

schlockbuster1966

mondo1967

peplum1968

thriller1968

whydunit1968

schlocker1969

buddy-buddy movie1972

buddy-buddy film1974

buddy film1974

science-fictioner1974

screwball1974

buddy movie1975

slasher movie1975

swashbuckler1975

filmi1976

triptych1976

autobiopic1977

Britcom1977

kidflick1977

noir1977

bodice-ripper1979

chopsocky1981

date movie1983

kaiju eiga1984

screener1986

neo-noir1987

indie1990

bromance2001

hack-and-slash2002

mumblecore2005

dark fantasy2007

hack-and-slay2007

gorefest2012

kidult-

1956 Sight & Sound Spring 162/1 They trace the progress of the American film noir from its germinal years in the early 'forties.

1971 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 15 Oct. (Northeast ed.) a33/2 ‘Film Noir’ (literally ‘black film’), a broad genre of films made in Hollywood in the '40s to mid-'50s, one of the richest creatives periods in American movie history.

1981 J. Monaco How to read Film (rev. ed.) iv. 249 In the later forties, the peculiar blend of urban cynicism, downbeat subject matter, and dark shadows known as ‘Film Noir’ made its appearance.

1991 Face Feb. 16/1 Now that film noir is the nearest Hollywood has to an art back-catalogue, the genre can more easily be pastiched than resurrected.

2004 J. McCourt Queer Street i. 13 Hollywood, in the wake of its all too brief if sentimental fling with film noir.., set about, in the sunshine decade of the 1950s, its business of projecting the fevered American dream of a victor's paradise.

B. adj. (chiefly attributive).

Of, relating to, or characteristic of film noir as a genre.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [adjective] > other types

costumed1851

foreign language1904

first run1910

Keystone1912

photodramatic1914

serial1915

coming of age1919

edge-of-your-seat1922

psychodramatic1927

omnibus1928

straight1936

low-budget1937

no-budget1937

screwball1937

Ealing1939

blockbusting1943

private eye1946

film noir1952

white telephone1952

portmanteau1953

uncut1953

anthology1955

three-D1955

Hammer1958

noir1958

co-production1959

kitchen sink1959

kidult1960

docudrama1961

cinéma vérité1963

maudit1963

filmi1965

indie1968

triple-X1969

XXX1969

drama-documentary1970

cheapie1973

gross-out1973

high concept1973

chopsocky1974

hard R1974

buddy movie1975

sci-fi1977

mondo1979

hack-and-slash1981

microbudget1981

hack-and-slay1982

slice-and-dice1982

fly on the wall1983

psychotronic1983

noirish1985

Mad Max1986

stoner1987

bonkbusting1993

straight to DVD1997

1952 Sight & Sound 1 Apr. 163/2 Her [sc. Joan Crawford's] opening images were film noir and suggested ominous, existentialist revolution.

1973 Observer 24 June 40/6 Engaging example of the post-war Hollywood ‘film noir’ thriller.

1974 Film Comment Jan. 30/1 The characteristic film noir moods of claustrophobia, paranoia, despair, and nihilism.

1989 Movie No. 33. 57/1 That share of Hollywood output..deals in late film noir suspense with a modicum of horror and cine-literate explorations of voyeurism.

1998 R. Newman Manners 140 Some people walk through life hearing foreboding strings accompany creeping film-noir shadows on the stairs.

2011 A. Hallay Vintage Cocktails 191 There's something very film noir about ordering a sour, visions of Robert Mitchum swaggering up to a bar, brim of hat pulled low.

Derivatives

ˌfilm ˈnoirish adj. characteristic or reminiscent of film noir.

ΚΠ

1981 Amer. Film Nov. 45/1 Film noirish thrillers like Eyewitness and Body Heat.

1997 J. Updike Toward End of Time 317 The drizzle was making the driveway asphalt shine and gave a film-noirish intensity to our conference.

2002 Daily Tel. 15 Apr. 17/5 The Sicilian court is relocated to a Forties film noirish setting, with the opening scene taking place in a nightclub.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	film noir
释义	film noirn.adj. Brit. /ˌfɪlm ˈnwɑː/, U.S. /ˌfɪlm ˈnwɑr/ Inflections: Plural film noirs, films noir, films noirs. Forms: also with capital initials. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French film noir. Etymology: < French film noir, lit. ‘black film’ (1938 or earlier with pejorative connotations denoting French realist films of the late 1930s characterized as pessimistic, degenerate, or immoral; 1946 or earlier denoting American thrillers and crime films of the 1940s) < film film n. + noir black (see noir adj.).In plural form films noirs after the French plural form. A. n. 1. A film characterized by a mood of cynicism, fatalism, menace, and moral ambiguity, typically taking place in an urban setting.In English, esp. in later use, the term is chiefly applied to American thriller or crime films made in the period 1944–54 and to the work of directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, and Billy Wilder. ΚΠ 1950 Sight & Sound May 106/2 But, remembering the deeper tones of Carné's films noirs..one feels that Carné should do better things. 1958 Spectator 25 July 134/2 It [sc. a play] tries to be a parody of a film noir. 1960 Times 9 May 16/4 A school-boy adventure story which turns suddenly and surprisingly into a bleak film noir. 1981 J. Monaco How to read Film (rev. ed.) iv. 253 The most intriguing esthetic result of this dark, paranoiac mood was the cycle of Films Noirs of the late forties and early fifties. 2015 C. Beach Hidden Hist. Film Style iii. 86 The highly expressive and strongly stylized aesthetic..first emerged in film noirs of the early 1940s. 2. A genre of crime film or thriller film characterized by a mood of cynicism, fatalism, menace, and moral ambiguity, and having a (typically American) urban setting. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types romantic comedy1748 epic1785 pre-release1871 foreign film1899 frivol1903 dramedy1905 film loop1906 first run1910 detective film1911 colour film1912 news film1912 topical1912 cinemicrograph1913 scenic1913 sport1913 newsreel1914 serial1914 sex comedy1915 war picture1915 telefilm1919 comic1920 true crime1923 art house1925 quickie1926 turkey1927 two-reeler1928 smellie1929 disaster film1930 musical1930 feelie1931 sticky1934 action comedy1936 quota quickie1936 re-release1936 screwball comedy1937 telemovie1937 pickup1939 video film1939 actioner1940 space opera1941 telepic1944 biopic1947 kinescope1949 TV movie1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 deepie1953 misterioso1953 film noir1956 policier1956 psychodrama1956 free film1958 prequel1958 co-production1959 glossy1960 sexploiter1960 sci-fier1961 tie-in1962 chanchada1963 romcom1963 wuxia1963 chick flick1964 showreel1964 mockumentary1965 sword-and-sandal1965 schlockbuster1966 mondo1967 peplum1968 thriller1968 whydunit1968 schlocker1969 buddy-buddy movie1972 buddy-buddy film1974 buddy film1974 science-fictioner1974 screwball1974 buddy movie1975 slasher movie1975 swashbuckler1975 filmi1976 triptych1976 autobiopic1977 Britcom1977 kidflick1977 noir1977 bodice-ripper1979 chopsocky1981 date movie1983 kaiju eiga1984 screener1986 neo-noir1987 indie1990 bromance2001 hack-and-slash2002 mumblecore2005 dark fantasy2007 hack-and-slay2007 gorefest2012 kidult- 1956 Sight & Sound Spring 162/1 They trace the progress of the American film noir from its germinal years in the early 'forties. 1971 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 15 Oct. (Northeast ed.) a33/2 ‘Film Noir’ (literally ‘black film’), a broad genre of films made in Hollywood in the '40s to mid-'50s, one of the richest creatives periods in American movie history. 1981 J. Monaco How to read Film (rev. ed.) iv. 249 In the later forties, the peculiar blend of urban cynicism, downbeat subject matter, and dark shadows known as ‘Film Noir’ made its appearance. 1991 Face Feb. 16/1 Now that film noir is the nearest Hollywood has to an art back-catalogue, the genre can more easily be pastiched than resurrected. 2004 J. McCourt Queer Street i. 13 Hollywood, in the wake of its all too brief if sentimental fling with film noir.., set about, in the sunshine decade of the 1950s, its business of projecting the fevered American dream of a victor's paradise. B. adj. (chiefly attributive). Of, relating to, or characteristic of film noir as a genre. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [adjective] > other types costumed1851 foreign language1904 first run1910 Keystone1912 photodramatic1914 serial1915 coming of age1919 edge-of-your-seat1922 psychodramatic1927 omnibus1928 straight1936 low-budget1937 no-budget1937 screwball1937 Ealing1939 blockbusting1943 private eye1946 film noir1952 white telephone1952 portmanteau1953 uncut1953 anthology1955 three-D1955 Hammer1958 noir1958 co-production1959 kitchen sink1959 kidult1960 docudrama1961 cinéma vérité1963 maudit1963 filmi1965 indie1968 triple-X1969 XXX1969 drama-documentary1970 cheapie1973 gross-out1973 high concept1973 chopsocky1974 hard R1974 buddy movie1975 sci-fi1977 mondo1979 hack-and-slash1981 microbudget1981 hack-and-slay1982 slice-and-dice1982 fly on the wall1983 psychotronic1983 noirish1985 Mad Max1986 stoner1987 bonkbusting1993 straight to DVD1997 1952 Sight & Sound 1 Apr. 163/2 Her [sc. Joan Crawford's] opening images were film noir and suggested ominous, existentialist revolution. 1973 Observer 24 June 40/6 Engaging example of the post-war Hollywood ‘film noir’ thriller. 1974 Film Comment Jan. 30/1 The characteristic film noir moods of claustrophobia, paranoia, despair, and nihilism. 1989 Movie No. 33. 57/1 That share of Hollywood output..deals in late film noir suspense with a modicum of horror and cine-literate explorations of voyeurism. 1998 R. Newman Manners 140 Some people walk through life hearing foreboding strings accompany creeping film-noir shadows on the stairs. 2011 A. Hallay Vintage Cocktails 191 There's something very film noir about ordering a sour, visions of Robert Mitchum swaggering up to a bar, brim of hat pulled low. Derivatives ˌfilm ˈnoirish adj. characteristic or reminiscent of film noir. ΚΠ 1981 Amer. Film Nov. 45/1 Film noirish thrillers like Eyewitness and Body Heat. 1997 J. Updike Toward End of Time 317 The drizzle was making the driveway asphalt shine and gave a film-noirish intensity to our conference. 2002 Daily Tel. 15 Apr. 17/5 The Sicilian court is relocated to a Forties film noirish setting, with the opening scene taking place in a nightclub. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1950
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