# Define "noir" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2006, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-noir/381630 "2006-11-24T10:59:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-noir/381630/21 "2006-11-25T22:26:00Z")
C’est mio. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-noir/381630/22 "2006-11-26T06:56:02Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir] C’est mio. [/QUOTE] Is that you-o? ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-noir/381630/23 "2006-11-26T14:55:14Z")
Almost all of my film classes showed one film a week with three hours of discussion about it - plus required outside viewing of whatever was in theatres or arthouses or available at the video store (a Film Major was fun - but it was time consuming). With the advent of DVD, you could provide a list of films for people to choose from outside of class to get the bredth - and ask for an essay which does a compare/contrast on these films and make them watch three or four (you may want to suggest they stick to a theme - parody Noir or Western Noir), then use classtime to watch and do in depth on three or four more. Bredth seemed far more important than depth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-noir/381630.md?page=1)