Genre+-+The+Acid+Western

The Acid Western is a sub-genre of the Western. It emerged in the 1960s and 70s and took on the psychedelic outlook of the hippy counterculture, whilst subverting traditional elements of the western genre to "conjure up a crazed version of auto-destructive white America hankering after its own lost origins."

//Greasers Palace// - Robert Downey Snr (1972) media type="youtube" key="tWF1d9XLXck" height="315" width="420"

//Dead Man// - Jim Jarmusch (1995) media type="youtube" key="DDceawCF5Xk" height="315" width="420"

//The Hired Hand// - Peter Fonda (1971) media type="youtube" key="Cw0p0qMCv_s" height="315" width="560"

//Bad Company// - Robert Benton (1972) media type="youtube" key="Y3iF3p28bSI" height="315" width="560"

//I'm Not There// - Todd Haynes (2007) media type="youtube" key="vt3pMzPjauc" height="315" width="560"