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- ↑ Altman, Rick (ed.) (1981) "Genre: The Musical, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London
- ↑ Altman, Rick. "A Semantic/Syntactic Approach To Film Genre", Cinema Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3, Spring, 1984, p.15
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