Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

1938-06-16 Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA 18 Credits

Biography

Joyce Carol Oates is an American author, poet and playwright. She published her first book in 1963 and has since published 58 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.

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Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind

Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind

2022

as Self

7.0
Acting

Prolific writer Joyce Carol Oates has remained intensely private. Until now. Through a long-standing friendship, and persistent inquiry, director Stig...

Blonde

Blonde

2022

Novel

5.9

From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood le...

Corona Film Club

Corona Film Club

2021

as Self

5.0
Acting

Documentary about filmmaker and film lover Stig Björkman during the pandemic year of 2020 when he stay in touch with his friends over his laptop.

Double Lover

Double Lover

2017

Novel

6.1

Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover ...

Vengeance: A Love Story

Vengeance: A Love Story

2017

Novel

5.5

When a new friend is brutally assaulted, Detective John Droomor is put by chance in charge of the investigation. Although the evidence against the per...

Foxfire

Foxfire

2013

Novel

5.7

Set in the 1950s, a a group of young girls in upstate New York form their own gang.

ZOMBIE

ZOMBIE

2011

Novel

9.0

ZOMBIE, a 19 minute psychological horror film, is based on the award-winning novella by literary icon Joyce Carol Oates. A Jeffrey Dahmer-esque serial...

The Gathering Squall

2011

Original Story

5.5
Writing

On the precipice of adulthood, fourteen-year-old Lisellen Uhlmann is without a man in her life; her father is distant and boys in school ignore her. W...

Small Avalanches

2007

Novel

Still a child but longing to be an adult, thirteen year-old Nancy overcomes her first real threat as a female when an older man aggressively pursues h...

Små skred

2003

Short Story

Writing
We Were the Mulvaneys

We Were the Mulvaneys

2002

Novel

6.5

Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and u...

Getting to Know You

Getting to Know You

1999

Original Story

7.5
Writing

A chance encounter alters a teenage girl's perception of herself and her outlook on life.

Foxfire

Foxfire

1996

Book

6.0

The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but...

Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson

Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson

1993

as Self

8.0
Acting

Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson is a 1993 film made by acclaimed American documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Though Tyson was in jail...

Lies of the Twins

Lies of the Twins

1991

Novel

4.3

An ex-model is seduced into danger by her psychotherapist boyfriend's wicked identical twin.

Norman and the Killer

Norman and the Killer

1991

Short Story

4.0
Writing

Story of a long and fateful night that unfolds when Norman, a man haunted by the memory of his slain brother, recognizes a gas station attendant as th...

Smooth Talk

Smooth Talk

1985

Novel

6.2

Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered b...

In the Region of Ice

In the Region of Ice

1976

Novel

6.8

In this American Film Institute-subsidized short subject, Fionnula Flanagan plays a sharp-tongued but compassionate nun, while Peter Lempert is cast a...