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Annie Berke

Annie Berke
Annie Berke is the Film editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, a host for the New Books in Film podcast, and a freelance writer with credits in The Washington Post, Jacobin, Public Books, and Ms. Her book, Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television, came out in January 2022 from the University of California Press.


Committing to the High Romance of The Notebook

Annie Berke on Pre-Ken Ryan Gosling and the Campless Excess of the 2004 Adaptation
September 15, 2023  By Annie Berke
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A Show of One’s Own: On the Women Who Made the Leap from Saturday Night Live to Sitcoms

Annie Berke Watches the SNL Spinoff Vehicles Loot and I Love That for You
August 12, 2022  By Annie Berke
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The Great Jessie Buckley is One to Watch

Annie Berke in Praise of the "Supporting" Star of The Lost Daughter
March 25, 2022  By Annie Berke
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Is Adaptation a Feminine Act? On the Women Writers Who Worked on Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Annie Berke on the Writers Who “Hijacked” the Gender Politics of Their Source Materials
February 28, 2022  By Annie Berke
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(Almost) Every Cultural Reference in Pretend It’s a City, Annotated

A Fran Lebowitz-Centric Syllabus
March 1, 2021  By Annie Berke
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