retro-noir

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Noun

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retro-noir (countable and uncountable, plural retro-noirs)

  1. (film, uncountable) A subgenre that closely imitates or recreates the aesthetics and tropes of the classical noirs.
    Hypernym: neo-noir
  2. (countable, film) A work that closely imitates the classical noirs.
    Hypernym: neo-noir