neo-noir
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See also: néo-noir
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From neo- + noir, after film noir.
Noun
[edit]neo-noir (countable and uncountable, plural neo-noirs)
- (uncountable) A genre of film that combines elements of traditional film noir with modern themes and visuals.
- 1994, William Grimes, “Days and Nights of Murder, Madness and Mayhem”, in New York Times[1]:
- By the time Martin Scorsese filmed "Taxi Driver," in the mid-70's, the neo-noir palette relied heavily on trash, crumbling streets, burned-out buildings, and many-splendored scuzz. The fedoras disappeared, too.
- 2006, Nicholas Christopher, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City:
- In only one other neo-noir film, Chinatown, a big-studio, big-stars production, has the screenwriter actually won the Academy Award.
- (countable) An individual film of this kind.
- 2007, Andrew Spicer, European Film Noir:
- Typical of neo-noir as a whole, British neo-noirs are highly intertextual and allusive […]
