The phrase "as a noir" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that embodies the characteristics or style of noir, typically in literature, film, or art.
Example: "The film was praised for its dark atmosphere and complex characters, truly standing out as a noir in modern cinema."
Alternatives: "in a noir style" or "as a noir piece".
I thought of it very much as a noir comedy.
"Blue Velvet," released in September 1986, was hailed as a noir masterpiece and edged David Lynch, the director, further into the mainstream.
Also starring Janet Leigh and Marlene Dietrich, the film, a modest success when it opened in 1958, came to be accepted as a noir classic.
His celebrity as a noir novelist may be dwarfed by his other claim to fame, as the plaintiff in an ugly lawsuit against his former boss, the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes.
Towering westerns and pert musicals are largely absent from this quirky celebration: how, Harvey asks, can they compare with James Mason as a megalomaniac cortisone addict or Deanna Durbin, incredibly, as a noir femme fatale -- beacons of subversion in an age that fairly crackled with conformity.
Towering westerns and pert musicals are largely absent from this quirky celebration: Harvey asks how they can compare with James Mason as a megalomaniac cortisone addict or Deanna Durbin, incredibly, as a noir femme fatale -- beacons of subversion in an age that fairly crackled with conformity.
BfB Labs is planning future games to appeal to different audiences: Fox describes one as a "noir-y detective thing" where you have to keep your cool through a series of interrogations.
He brought a bit of whimsy to management journals and corporate brochures, rendering stoic, Thatcher-era captains of industry as characters in a noir film.
He's got a buddy action comedy with Jonah Hill, "Good Time Gang," in pre-production, as well as "Broken City," a noir-type film about a shady election in which he'd play a private eye.
I am told that he was further distressed by the label of "vulgarity" that was attached to him personally: his lowly origins, his illiterate mother; his situation as a pied noir (a Frenchman from Algeria) sympathetic to other pieds noirs — people so "overfamiliar" (so "crass"); the lightweight philosophy of his essays; and so on.
MEXICO CITY — The story is as convoluted as a film noir plot.
