Rick Altman is a

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Cinema Cinema may refer to: Film * Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of moving image ** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking ** Filmmaking, the process of making a film * Movie theate ...

and

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in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature,

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. He has also

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ed under the name Charles F. Altman.Altman, Rick.
A Semantic/Syntactic Approach To Film Genre
, ''Cinema Journal'', Vol. 23, No. 3, Spring, 1984, p.15

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