The Beginner’s Guide to the Subgenres of Film Noir
What's black and white and full of subgenres?
Tech-Noir
Also known as cyber noir, future-noir, and the very broad sci-fi noir, the term tech-noir was coined in The Terminator, where a nightclub called the TechNoir evokes both genres, replacing pernicious corporations, crooks, and corrupt entities for dystopian technologies. But don’t worry. They still have trench coats in the future.
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