Adjective modifier

• classic: I love the way Wim Wenders used this song on American Friend, his greatest homage to classic film noir.

• American: Welcome to A Question of Sex, a website devoted to the representation of gender in American film noir of the 1940s.

• great: Minority Report is the bits and pieces of great film noir.

• old: The work of Colleen or Cecile Schott bristles with the mystery and magic of the most abstract of scratchy old film noir incidental soundtracks.

Modifies a noun

• genre: A detective story set around a contemporary California high school, BRICK dares to combine the teen and film noir genres.

• style: A short crime story in film noir style, set in Nursery Land!

• classic: The Last Seduction is stylish, sexy and recalls film noir classics like Double Indemnity.

• detective: The tutorial adopts a film noir detective metaphor to offer a light hearted guide to developing Internet skills.

• thriller: Dearden directs Victim as a kind of film noir thriller.

• metaphor: The tutorial adopts a film noir detective metaphor to offer a light hearted guide to developing Internet skills.

Noun used with modifier

• 1940s: Tuesday December 6 Dance, acting and murder in the world of 1940s film noir, as Wolverhampton's Arena Theater presents SILENT MOVIE.

• 1930s: The graphical style is simple and the game has taken on a sort of 1930s film noir look to it.