neo-noir

See also: néo-noir

English

From neo- +‎ noir, after film noir.

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 […]