acid Western

English

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Etymology

Coined by American film critic Pauline Kael in a review of El Topo (1970).

Noun

acid Western (countable and uncountable, plural acid Westerns)

  1. (film) A subversive and often surrealist western subgenre associated with 1960s counterculture.
    • 2015 September 4, Ben Child, “Are superhero movies really set to go the way of the western?”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 7 June 2022:
      And here it’s harder to see a parallel. Iron Man and his pals might have to evolve into the equivalent of the morally nebulous, trope-reversing, acid western period into which its predecessor slipped just prior to its long goodbye.

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