Neo-noirとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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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.
   • 1994, William Grimes, “Days and Nights of Murder, Madness and Mayhem”, in New York Times‎:

     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.

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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• neo-noir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia