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Article: The short-lived life of the Hollywood LSD film.(lysergic acid diethylamide)
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- Velvet Light Trap
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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This essay examines the rise and fall of the late 1960s Hollywood LSD film, a category that encompasses cheaply made pseudodocumentary films such as The Weird World of LSD (1967), Roger Corman's higher-budgeted exploitation film The Trip (1967), certain films of the so-called American New Wave, including Easy Rider (1969), and even "Old Hollywood"--produced films such as Columbia's The Love-Ins (1967) and Otto Preminger's Skidoo (1968). Drawing upon theories of genre evolution and transformation, this essay argues that the term LSD film can be used to describe a historically specific microgenre, one that might be thought of as a subgenre of a larger group of films ...