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  1. Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind | Official Trailer. IN THEATERS & ON AMAZON & APPLE TV SEPTEMBER 8. Literary icon Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more...

    • 2 min
    • 21.2K
    • Greenwich Entertainment
  2. Writer-director Stig Björkman's latest presents a comprehensive, articulate and skillfully organized profile of Oates, showing how her meager beginnings played a role in her love of writing and the views she embraced upon coming of age, themes repeatedly reflected in her prose.

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    • Documentary, Biography, History
    • Stig Björkman
    • 2021-09-02
  3. Sep 7, 2023 · This generic documentary, subtitled “A Body in the Service of Mind,” is so fixated on canonizing its subject that it skirts around what makes her so intriguing: her peculiar and provocative...

    • Beatrice Loayza
    • Stig Björkman
  4. Author Joyce Carol Oates provides rare insight into her life, creative process, and the events that have shaped her writings, including the 1967 Detroit Riot, the Chappaquiddick incident, and...

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    • Mantaray Film
    • Stig Björkman
    • Documentary, Biography
  5. Sep 8, 2023 · Quoting a phrase from one of Oates’ most poetic works, Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in Service of the Mind explores all things to do with Joyce Carol Oates. The film opens with the director, Stig Björkman, recounting his process of “courting” Ms. Oates until she acquiesced to be the subject of a documentary.

    • Benjamin Franz
  6. From her hardscrabble beginnings on a farm, through her difficult childhood and notable university career, the notoriously reclusive Oates speaks to the formative personal and cultural shifts that shaped her distinct aesthetic and moral compass, as well her keen interest in social justice.

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  8. A wide-ranging documentary on the life and work of the prolific writer, outspoken political activist, and dedicated educator. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2023. A beautifully ...