Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in Service of Mind – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

MOVIE OF THE WEEK September 8, 2023: JOYCE CAROL OATES: A BODY IN THE SERVICE OF MIND

September 2, 2023September 8, 2023 Jennifer Merin betsy bozdech, biodoc, Cate Marquis, documentaries, greenwich entertainment, jennifer merin, Joyce Carol Oates, Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in Service of Mind, Laura Dern, leslie combemale, liz whittemore, loren king, motw, Movie of the Week, nell minow, nikki fowler, Pam Grady, sherin nicole, Stig Bjorkman

Prolific author, keen observer, insightful storyteller, compulsive writer, incisive tweeter. Joyce Carol Oates is all of these things and more, as director Stig Björkman makes abundantly clear in his thoughtfully constructed, affectionate documentary Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in Service of Mind. Tracing Oates’ life and career over the course of several decades, Björkman makes it clear that she has well earned her reputation as an iconic American writer.

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JOYCE CAROL OATES: A BODY IN THE SERVICE OF MIND – Review by Jennifer Merin

August 29, 2023September 3, 2023 Jennifer Merin biodoc, documentaries, Joyce Carol Oates, Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in Service of Mind, Laura Dern, motw, Movie of the Week, Stig Bjorkman

Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in Service of Mind is a delightful documentary delve into the persona and personal opinions of the notoriously self effacing and non-stop prolific literary goddess known as Joyce Carol Oates. Filmmaker Stig Bjorkman. a longstanding friend of Joyce Carol Oates. gives us a respectful and intimate documentary that spends its hour and a half on current interviews with Oates, as well as clips from her past interviews with Dick Cavitt and other broadcast presenters and select readings from her writings that are voiced by Laura Dern over footage of Oates at work, or hiking through the countryside.

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JOYCE CAROL OATES: A BODY IN SERVICE OF MIND – Review by Nikki Fowler

August 29, 2023September 8, 2023 Nikki Fowler biodoc, documentaries, greenwich entertainment, Joyce Carol Oates, Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in Service of Mind, Laura Dern, motw, Movie of the Week, Stig Bjorkman

Greenwich Entertainment’s documentary Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind is a beautiful and informative look into the life and work of the beloved and award-winning novelist by the same name, who not only wrote a series of novels drenched immensely in gender, race, socioeconomics, and politics but who wrote dramatic novels sans politics under pseudonyms which she described as getting to “start over” and “to write as if she were “writing for the first time.”