{"id":134884,"date":"2022-09-19T20:13:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T20:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/blonde-joyce-carol-oates-epic-marilyn-monroe-novel-captures-the-violence-of-celebrity-myth-making"},"modified":"2022-09-19T20:13:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T20:13:31","slug":"blonde-joyce-carol-oates-epic-marilyn-monroe-novel-captures-the-violence-of-celebrity-myth-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/blonde-joyce-carol-oates-epic-marilyn-monroe-novel-captures-the-violence-of-celebrity-myth-making","title":{"rendered":"Blonde: Joyce Carol Oates&#8217; epic Marilyn Monroe novel captures the violence of celebrity myth-making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blonde Netflix Marilyn Monroe died 60 years ago , on August 4 1962. And on September 28, Netflix will release Blonde , a film by Australian director Andrew Dominik, starring Cuban actress Ana de Armas as Monroe. It&#8217;s an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates&#8217; bestselling novel of the same name: an epic doorstop of a book that was shortlisted for the 2000 National Book Award and 2001 Pulitzer Prize. When Oates&#8217; novel was previously adapted as a 2001 TV miniseries, starring Australian actress Poppy Montgomery, it opened with the disclaimer that it was fiction: an approach that, as Variety critic Steven Oxman wrote at the time , &#8220;allows the creators to be far more imaginative in their suppositions about the characters&#8217; private thoughts&#8221;. Oates has always insisted Blonde is a work of imagination. It&#8217;s a towering literary achievement. Eschewing a realist biographical narrative, Blonde contains multiple voices and perspectives; it&#8217;s also allusive and formally adventurous. Read more: Would Marilyn Monroe&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marilyn Monroe died 60 years ago, on August 4 1962. And on September 28, Netflix will release Blonde, a film by Australian director Andrew Dominik, starring Cuban actress Ana de<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1],"tags":[314,90,18,19,21],"class_list":["post-134884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature","category-news","tag-army","tag-books-literature","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}