while genres can be used as tags, genres are not tags They’re more like categories. Film noir is a very specific genre -- it encompasses crime films made mostly in the United States between the...
while genres can be used as tags, genres are not tags
They’re more like categories.
Film noir is a very specific genre -- it encompasses crime films made mostly in the United States between the 1920s and 1959. It's realistic for the period and considered by many a result of the atmosphere of vice and pessimism that followed the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Neo-noir is simply any movie with lots of noir characteristics made after 1959. Chinatown (1974) is neo-noir even though it follows the film noir recipe to a tee.
I don't get the point of the other genres, they are either too specific to be of use or distinct enough that they should probably not be called noir anything.
"Western noir" is just western with dark themes and/or chiaroscuro.
"Tech-noir" is cyberpunk (cyberpunk already mixes noir and science fiction...). The author cites The Terminator as tech-noir, which is just science fiction. She also mentions Johnny Mnemonic, which is 100% cyberpunk.
Most "horror noir" is simply horror (horror itself shares so many characteristics with noir that "horror noir" is pointless. They both drew inspiration from gothic and expressionism, for example). I would call Angel Heart neo-noir with supernatural elements. It's not really horror.
"Noir comedy" is not noir, it's comedy of the parody kind. Noir is the target of ridicule, not the genre.
while genres can be used as tags, genres are not tags
They’re more like categories.
Film noir is a very specific genre -- it encompasses crime films made mostly in the United States between the 1920s and 1959. It's realistic for the period and considered by many a result of the atmosphere of vice and pessimism that followed the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Neo-noir is simply any movie with lots of noir characteristics made after 1959. Chinatown (1974) is neo-noir even though it follows the film noir recipe to a tee.
I don't get the point of the other genres, they are either too specific to be of use or distinct enough that they should probably not be called noir anything.
"Western noir" is just western with dark themes and/or chiaroscuro.
"Tech-noir" is cyberpunk (cyberpunk already mixes noir and science fiction...). The author cites The Terminator as tech-noir, which is just science fiction. She also mentions Johnny Mnemonic, which is 100% cyberpunk.
Most "horror noir" is simply horror (horror itself shares so many characteristics with noir that "horror noir" is pointless. They both drew inspiration from gothic and expressionism, for example). I would call Angel Heart neo-noir with supernatural elements. It's not really horror.
"Noir comedy" is not noir, it's comedy of the parody kind. Noir is the target of ridicule, not the genre.
Leave noir alone :P