neo-noir

plural neo-noirs

1. uncountableA genre of film that combines elements of traditional film noir with modern themes and visuals.

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

   2006, Nicholas Christopher, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City

   1 more example

   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. countableAn 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