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Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.

Frank Lentricchia

Frank Lentricchia

Frank Lentricchia

Born: 1940 (age 85)

Bio: Frank Lentricchia is an American literary critic, novelist, and film teacher. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Duke University in 1966 and 1963 respectively after receiving a B.A. from Utica College in 1962.

Known for:

After the new criticism (1980)
Modernist quartet (1994)
Crimes of art + terror (2003)
The Morelli Thing (2015)

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