oater

• “Variously dubbed the "oater," the "shoot-em-up," or a "blood and thunder" novel, the western emerged during Grey's lifetime as a major literary genre and remains one of the singular American contributions to literature and the cinema.”

  Zane Grey, Romancing the West

• “Now, they're barely a separate category in Netflix and, if you order an old-fashioned "oater" from Netflix, it usually triggers some rueful "sorry, but this will take more time" email as Netflix desperately taps inventories scattered across the country.”

  Information Today News Breaks

• “I can happily watch Grahame in anything, so I decided to sit there and watch this oater while going through my morning routine (in the end, I ended up watching roughly three quarters).”

  Weekly Mishmash: August 9-15 : Scrubbles.net

• “The craggy, mellowing Eastwood directs himself admirably in this scenic, first-class oater, which strikes an ideal balance between character piece and action film as it portrays a rapidly changing way of life.”

  The Huffington Post: The Hard-Won Legacy of Gene Hackman

• “Who'd 'uv thunk it? ... historical semi-accuracy in a Durango Kid oater?”

  Laramie

• “Watch the based-on-a-real-memoir “Cowboy” with Jack Lemmon or “3:10 to Yuma”; both show off a quality that he shared with Jimmy Stewart in their oater roles, that of men whose thin veneer of control or conventionality could be stripped away in a moment.”

  100 Mysteries: the Green Glove – The Bleat.

• “Raoul Walsh's Pursued is a lurid, frankly ludicrous Western that infuses a noir sensibility into the oater genre.”

  2/19: Eastern Promises; Pursued

• “This deconstruction of the Western is unexpected in a low-budget oater like this, but Boetticher manages to sneak in a great deal of subtext of this sort within the film's fast-moving framework.”

  12/27: The Man From the Alamo; California

• “You know, if not for the caption I might have thought this was a Seminal Image from a long-forgotten oater.”

  They Were Collaborators #327

• “First James Reasoner recommends a Longarm that read like a Three Mesquiteers, an oater series that all small-town kids my age are familiar with.”

  Archive 2007-07-01

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