The french term Film Noir which means “Black film” in English was generally regarded as an extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.
It is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas.
The genre represents and gives the atmosphere of classical movies as it is associated with a low black and white visiual style which also wakes a mysterious feeling.
Before the notion was widely adopted in the 1970s, many of the classic films noirs were referred to as melodramas.
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