The emergence of different film genres tends to reflect social development and changes in social form. Neo-Noir is a genre of film which emerged after 1960 that is always situated in the dark and dirty city. Compared with traditional Film Noir, Neo-Noir has new contents and novel forms. Neo-Noir reflects the crimes, violence and depraved humanity that tend to make the audiences feel negative and pessimistic. In this dissertation, I will take two representative directors (Quentin Tarantino and David Fincher) of the Neo-Noir genre in order to analyze the noir elements including montage, image style and psychology so that I can illuminate the artistic features of Neo-Noir.

Yu Zhou. Noir Elements of Neo-Noir: An Analysis of Quentin Tarantino and David Fincher. Frontiers in Art Research (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 16: 54-63. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2022.041608.

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