Film screening
Author Joyce Carol Oates is a living legend. Since her debut in 1963, she has published more than a dizzying 100 books, and with that, written her way into the literary history of US and the world at large. Oates is a very private person, so it was monumental when she – reluctantly – agreed to be the focus of a documentary about her life and body of work, directed by her yearlong friend, the journalist Stig Björkman.
The documentary offers a glimpse into Oates’s body of work and creative process, and she takes us back to central events that have shaped her life and writing, as well as her view on the society we live in, such as the 1967 Detroit race riots and the Chappaquiddick incident, when senator Ted Kennedy left a young woman to die after a car crash.
On the occasion of Joyce Carol Oates’s first ever visit to Norway, the House of Literature will screen the critically acclaimed documentary «Joyce Carol Oates – A Body in the Service of Mind» about the author legend.
Duration: 94 minutes
Language: English
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