Acid Western is a sub-genre of the Western film that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s that combined the metaphorical ambitions of top-shelf westerns, like Shane and The Searchers, with the excesses of the Spaghetti Westerns and the irrelevant outlook of the counter-culture. 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] i like western films The Western is an American genre in literature and film. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Searchers is a 1956 epic Western film directed by John Ford, which tells the story of Ethan Edwards, a bitter, middle-aged loner played by John Wayne, who spends years looking for his abducted niece. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... During the 1960s the term underground acquired a new meaning in that it referred to members of the so-called counterculture, i. ...

Origin of the term

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‘Acid Western’ was coined by Jonathan Rosenbaum in a review of Jim Jarmusch's film, Dead Man, published in the Chicago Reader in June 1996. Rosenbaum expanded upon the idea in a subsequent interview with Jarmusch for Cineaste and later in the book, Dead Man from BFI Modern Classics. Jonathan Rosenbaum is a prominent American film critic. ... Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953 in Akron, Ohio) is a noted American independent film director. ... Dead Man is a 1995 film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. ...

In the book, Rosenbaum illuminates several aspects of this re-revisionist western: from Neil Young’s haunting score, to the role of tobacco, to Johnny Depp's performance, to the film's place in the acid western genre. In the chapter “On the Acid Western,” Rosenbaum addresses not only the hallucinogenic quality of the film's pace and its representation of "reality," but also argues that the film inherits an artistic and political sensibility derived from the 1960s counterculture which has sought to critique and replace capitalism with alternative models of exchange.^[2] Neil Percival Young[1] OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director from Winnipeg, Manitoba. ... Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II[2] on June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an Academy Award-nominated and SAG Awards-winning American actor and for his performances in the films Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Ed Wood (1994...

In the traditional Western, the journey west is seen as a road to liberation and improvement, but in the acid western, it is the reverse, a journey towards death; society becomes nightmarish. i like western films The Western is an American genre in literature and film. ...

History of the genre

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Rosenbaum used the term ‘acid western’ to describe a “cherished counterculture dream" from the Sixties and Seventies "associated with people like Monte Hellman, Dennis Hopper, Jim McBride, and Rudy Wurlitzer, as well as movies like Greaser's Palace; Alex Cox tapped into something similar in the Eighties with Walker."^[3] Monte Hellman (born in 1932 in New York City, New York) is an American film director, producer, and film editor. ... Dennis Hopper (born May 17, 1936 in Dodge City, Kansas) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and film-maker. ... Jim McBride (born September 16, 1941, in New York, New York) is an American television and film director, producer, and screenwriter. ... Rudy Wurlitzer was a US novelist and screenwriter. ... Alexander Morton Cox (b. ... Walker is a 1987 motion picture by British director Alex Cox based on the life story of William Walker, the American filibuster who invaded Mexico in the 1850s and made himself President of Nicaragua shortly thereafter. ...

Monte Hellman’s cult classic, The Shooting (1967) could be considered the first ‘acid western.’ The film stars Will Hutchins, Warren Oates and a young Jack Nicholson, and was anonymously financed by Roger Corman. The Shooting subverts the usual priorities of the western to capture a sense of dread and uncertainty that characterized the counterculture of the late 1960s. Hellman quickly followed up with Ride in the Whirlwind. Early 1970s films such as Robert Downey Sr. Greaser's Palace, George Englund's Zachariah, and Alejandro Jorodowsky's El Topo (The Mole) blend religious allegory, John Fordian Americana, Thomas Pynchonesque satire, and counter-cultural fantasy. The Shooting is a 1967 film starring Jack Nicholson and Millie Perkins . ... Will Hutchins (born May 5, 1932) is an American actor most noted for playing the lead role of Tom Brewster in the Warner Brothers western television series Sugarfoot (1957). ... Warren Oates (July 5, 1928 - April 3, 1982) was an American character actor. ... John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937), better known as Jack Nicholson or The Jack is an iconic, three-time Academy Award and seven time Golden Globe winning American method actor known for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. ... Roger Corman. ... Ride in the Whirlwind is a 1965 film was written , producer and star by Jack Nicholson. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Zachariah is a 1971 film starring John Rubinstein as Zachariah and Don Johnson as his best friend Matthew. ... El Topo (The Mole) is a 1970 Mexican allegorical, cult western movie and underground film, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. ... John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director famous for westerns such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such classic 20th century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath. ... Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. ...

The Acid Western reached it's zenith in the 1970s, depicting the Old West as an imaginary, post-apocalyptic wilderness populated by degenerate hippies and loners. Grim Nixon-era acid westerns include Robert Benton's Bad Company, James Frawley's Kid Blue (staring Dennis Hopper), and Stan Dragoti's Dirty Little Billy. Robert Benton (born September 29, 1932 in Waxahachie, Texas) is an American screenwriter and film director. ... Bad Company is a 1972 American Western film directed by Robert Benton, who also co-wrote the film with David Newman. ...

Rosenbaum calls Dead Man a “much-delayed fulfillment” of the acid western, “formulating a chilling, savage frontier poetry to justify its hallucinated agenda.” Dead Man is a 1995 film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. ...

References

1. ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (1996-06-26). Acid Western: Dead Man. Chicago Reader.
2. ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (2000). Dead Man. London: Cromwell Press. ISBN 0-85170-806-4
3. ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (1996-06). A gun up your ass: an interview with Jim Jarmusch. Cineaste vol. 22, no. 2.

External Links

Acid Western movie & book reviews [1]