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Such Little Babies: On Tom Perrotta’s “Tracy Flick Can’t Win”
Annie Berke breaks down the appeal of the title character in Tom Perrotta's "Tracy Flick Can't Win."...
Annie Berke
Annie Berke is the film editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, a host for the Film channel of the New Books Network podcast, and the author of Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television (University of California Press, 2022). Her scholarship and criticism have been published in Camera Obscura, Public Books, Feminist Media Histories, Ms., and Literary Hub. Annie earned her PhD in Film & Media Studies and American Studies at Yale University. She lives in the DC-Metro area.
Articles
Guiding Lights: On “Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History”
Annie Berke reviews Elana Levine's "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History," on a pivotal genre and its diverse fandom ...
Dear Esther: A Film by and Conversation with Nora Stone
Nora Stone presents her short film “Dear Esther” and speaks to LARB’s Film Editor, Annie Berke....
Dear Esther: A Film by and Conversation with Nora Stone
Nora Stone presents her short film “Dear Esther” and speaks to LARB’s Film Editor, Annie Berke....
In a Lonely Place: On “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” and “Love, Guaranteed”
Annie Berke writes about how two recent Netflix original films thematize loneliness and our romance with screens under quarantine....
Love the One You're With: "High Fidelity" Goes Corporate
Annie Berke on Hulu's adaptation of High Fidelity as a Millennial romantic comedy of media conglomeration and tech utopianism....
In the Room Where She Happens: On “Late Night”
Annie Berke examines “Late Night” in the contexts of writer-star Mindy Kaling’s public persona and the history of the woman in the writers’ room....
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