Neo-noir

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A genre of film that combines elements of traditional film noir with modern themes and visuals. uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    An individual film of this kind. countable

    "Typical of neo-noir as a whole, British neo-noirs are highly intertextual and allusive […]"

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"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."

Etymology

From neo- + noir, after film noir.

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