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Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men walks beside a police car, holding a captive bolt pistol and air tank, wearing a black jacket and brown shirt. Jean-Paul Belmondo stands shirtless beside Jean Seberg, who faces a mirror and applies makeup, in a black-and-white scene from the film Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard. Jack Nicholson as Jake Gittes in Chinatown stands in front of a yellow sign reading Farm Land for Sale, with a sold banner, wearing a suit, sunglasses, and a bandage on his nose. Jeff Bridges as The Dude, Steve Buscemi as Donny, and John Goodman as Walter Sobchak sit together in a bowling alley scene from The Big Lebowski.
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Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, with her dog, Toto, from the motion picture film The Wizard of Oz (1939); directed by Mervyn LeRay. (cinema, movies)
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neo-noir: References & Edit History

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  • René Ostberg
    René Ostberg is an associate editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. 

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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: Texas Woman's University - True Detective: A Case for Neo-noir (PDF). Mar 07, 2025
Added cross-references. Oct 28, 2024
Add new Web site: The New York Times - FILM VIEW; Neo-Noir's a Fashion That Fits Only a Few. Mar 15, 2024
Add new Web site: BFI - Where to begin with neo-noir. Jan 12, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Neo-Noir and The Hollywood Renaissance (PDF). Oct 23, 2023
Link added. Feb 13, 2023
New article added. Nov 05, 2022
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