Fast Women and Neon Lights

This anthology concept came from a variety of inspirations. Mostly, we love the eighties. They were just so campy. We remember them through the lens of being kids, which is to say, we remember them in many ways through the movies and shows we watched growing up, like most 80’s kids. A great many of those shows were crime shows; Magnum P.I., Miami Vice, Hunter, Cagney and Lacey, Jake and the Fatman… there were way too many to list them all, but you get the idea. What we love about the eighties is that there’s perhaps never been a decade in history where western culture was so simultaneously aware and unapologetic of how commercialized and consumption-driven it had become. People were taking themselves VERY seriously at a time where it was hard to take anyone serious if you considered how they were dressed. The default mode of the nineteen-eighties was loud, fast, fashion forward, and almost always over the top. So when we say Neon Noir, we’re partially using it as a slant on the more familiar term “neo-noir,” in the context of eighties crime shows like Miami Vice or Magnum P.I., or a whole host of eighties crime movies as well.

Country of Publication

United States