Acid Western is a subgenre of the Western film that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s that combines the metaphorical ambitions of critically acclaimed Westerns, such as Shane and The Searchers, with the excesses of the Spaghetti Westerns and the outlook of the counterculture of the 1960s, as well as the increase in illicit drug taking of, for example, cannabis and LSD. Acid Westerns subvert many of the conventions of earlier Westerns to "conjure up a crazed version of autodestructive white America at its most solipsistic, hankering after its own lost origins".[1]
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AcidWestern is a subgenre of the Western film that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s that combines the metaphorical ambitions of critically acclaimed Westerns...
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as the separate but related subgenre of "acidWesterns,” that radically turn the usual trappings of the Western genre inside out to critique both capitalism...
huge scandal in Mexico, eventually being banned. His next film, the acidwestern El Topo (1970), became a hit on the midnight movie circuit in the United...
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distort the viewers' understanding of reality or normality. AcidWestern adapts tropes of the Western genre popular in the 1960s and 1970s, augmented with psychedelic...
helped Robert Thomas design the band's trademark skull logo. Called the Acid King by the media, Stanley was the first known private individual to manufacture...
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big-budget action comedy Starsky & Hutch, and headlined Blueberry, a French acidWestern directed by Jan Kounen. She subsequently starred in comedy-drama Daltry...
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