Film noir is a term used to describe Hollywood crime dramas which are mainly fuelled by cynical attitudes and sexual motivations , the term means “black film” in French due to them usually being dark and in black and white, this was most popular around the 1940s and the 1950s this was known as the classic period for film noir. Most of the Film noirs of the classic period were low and modestly budgeted features without major stars . Film Noir gets its roots from German expressionism cinematography, but get many of the stories from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in America during the depression around the 1930s. The term film noir was applied by French critics in 1946 to a group of U.S films made during the war and released abroad in quick succession after 1945.
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