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Rick Altman

Rick Altman 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. He has also published under the name Charles F. Altman. He created the Living Nickelodeon program and toured around the world in 2009-2010.

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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.1 He has also published under the name Charles F. Altman.23 He created the Living Nickelodeon program and toured around the world in 2009-2010.4

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  1. "Rick Altman". University of Iowa - Department of cinema and comparative Literature. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
  2. Altman, Rick (ed.) (1981) "Genre: The Musical, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London
  3. Altman, Rick. "A Semantic/Syntactic Approach To Film Genre", Cinema Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3, Spring, 1984, p.15
  4. "Rick Altman, PhD | Cinematic Arts - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The University of Iowa". cinematicarts.uiowa.edu. Retrieved February 5, 2026.