acid western

plural acid westerns

1. Alternative letter-case form of acid Western

plural acid Westerns · alternative acid western

1. countableuncountablebroadcastingA subversive and often surrealist western subgenre associated with 1960s counterculture.

   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.

   2015 September 4, Ben Child, “Are superhero movies really set to go the way of the western?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2022