Neo-noir

"Neo-noir" in a Sentence (3 examples)

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.

In only one other neo-noir film, Chinatown, a big-studio, big-stars production, has the screenwriter actually won the Academy Award.

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

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