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'''Rick Altman''' (born 1945) is an American academic who is a professor of cinema and comparative literature in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://ccl.clas.uiowa.edu/node/21 | work =University of Iowa - Department of cinema and comparative Literature | title=Rick Altman | accessdate=2011-02-09}}</ref> He has also published under the name Charles F. Altman.<ref>Altman, Rick (ed.) (1981) "[https://books.google.com/books?id=xTs9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA208 ''Genre: The Musical''], Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London</ref><ref>Altman, Rick. "[https://www.jstor.org/pss/1225093 A Semantic/Syntactic Approach To Film Genre]", ''Cinema Journal'', Vol. 23, No. 3, Spring, 1984, p.15</ref> He created the Living Nickelodeon program and toured around the world in 2009-2010.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rick Altman, PhD {{!}} Cinematic Arts - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences {{!}} The University of Iowa |url=https://cinematicarts.uiowa.edu/people/rick-altman |access-date=2026-02-05 |website=cinematicarts.uiowa.edu |language=en}}</ref>

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