neo-noir en · NOUN
Etymology
From neo- + noir, after film noir.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A genre of film that combines elements of traditional film noir with modern themes and visuals.
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.
1994, William Grimes, “Days and Nights of Murder, Madness and Mayhem”, in New York Times:In only one other neo-noir film, Chinatown, a big-studio, big-stars production, has the screenwriter actually won the Academy Award.
2006, Nicholas Christopher, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City:
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(countable) An individual film of this kind.
Typical of neo-noir as a whole, British neo-noirs are highly intertextual and allusive […]
2007, Andrew Spicer, European Film Noir:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| neo-noirs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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cs neo-noir (film genre) · ru неонуа́р (film genre) · kk неонуар (film genre) · et neo-noir (film genre) · pt neo-noir (film genre) · lv neo-noir (film genre) · uk неонуа́р (film genre) · fr néo-noir (film genre) · ca neo-noir (film genre) · hu neo-noir (film genre) · de Neo-Noir (film genre) · es neo-noir (film genre) · pl neo-noir (film genre) · it neo-noir (film genre)