What is noire meaning?

Noire, which is French for "black," is a genre of crime fiction characterized by a dark, bleak atmosphere and cynical, morally ambiguous characters. It emerged in the 1940s and 1950s in the United States and is associated with writers such as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Noire stories often feature hard-boiled detectives, femme fatales, and violent, seedy underworlds. Noire has also been influential in film, particularly in the classic American film noir of the 1940s and 1950s.