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neo-noirs

neo-noirs is the plural of neo-noir.

Meaning of 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.
    • 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.1994, William Grimes, “Days and Nights of Murder, Madness and Mayhem”, in New York Times
  2. (countable) An individual film of this kind.
    • Typical of neo-noir as a whole, British neo-noirs are highly intertextual and allusive […]2007, Andrew Spicer, European Film Noir

Questions about neo-noirs

What is neo-noirs the plural of?
Neo-noirs is the plural of neo-noir.

Words near neo-noirs in the dictionary

  1. neo-nazism
  2. neo-nazisms
  3. neo-nazist
  4. neo-nazists
  5. neo-noir
  6. neo-noirs
  7. neo-objectivism
  8. neo-Objectivist
  9. neo-Objectivists
  10. Neo-orthodox
  11. neo-orthodoxy

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