Capo's right. The film-noir is a stylistic movement, no different from Italian neo-realism or the French New Wave. Like other respective movements, the film-noir is generally limited to one country, during one time-frame. The term film noir, meaning black film, was not coined until the movement was over halfway done. The high-point of the movement was after WWII was just finished, during the beginning of the cold-war and the genre represented the uncertainty of the United States and its future existence. Which is why there really is no such thing as "neo-noir," because they don't represent or depict the same things that traditional noirs do (and they usually aren't shot in black and white!).


"I could dance with you until the cows come home...on second thought I'd rather dance with the cows when you come home."

Groucho Marx - Duck Soup

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