tech noir
nounEtymology Blend of tech (“technology”) + film noir. From the close association of high tech with sci-fi. Folk etymology suggests this was coined by Canadian filmmaker James Cameron, when he named the dance club in the 1984 film The Terminator "Tech-Noir", and the fandom and critics labelled similar IP properties as "tech noir".
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Broadcasting, Film, Media, Television A genre of film, science-fiction film-noir cinema.
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Fiction, Literature, Media, Publishing Broadly A genre of fiction, thematically like that of the film genre.
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A work of fiction in that genre.
- Related terms
- film noir, neo-noir, noir, tech, technology
- Hypernyms
- noir
- Coordinate terms
- apocalyptic, cyberpunk, dystopian, grimdark, neo-noir, post-apocalyptic, science fiction