Neo-noir (from the Greek neo, new; and the French noir, black) is a style often seen in modern motion pictures and other forms that prominently utilize elements of film noir, but with updated themes, content, style, visual elements or media that were absent in films noir of the 1940s and 1950s.

Contents

• 1 History
• 2 See also
• 3 References
  • 3.1 Bibliography
  • 3.2 Notes
• 4 External links

Etymology

neo- +‎ noir

Noun

neo-noir (countable and uncountable; plural neo-noirs)

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

2. (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...

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