Robert J. Thompson

Contributor

Website : Robert Thompson at Syracuse University

BIOGRAPHY

Professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University; founding director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television. Author of Television's Second Golden Age and coauthor of Prime Time, Prime Movers.

Primary Contributions (1)

Television in the United States

Television in the United States, the body of television programming created and broadcast in the United States. American TV programs, like American popular culture in general in the 20th and early 21st centuries, have spread far beyond the boundaries of the United States and have had a pervasive…

Publications (2)

Television's Second Golden Age: From Hill Street Blues to ER (Television and Popular Culture)

By Robert Thompson

Prime Time, Prime Movers: From I Love Lucy to L.A. Law―America's Greatest TV Shows and the People Who Created Them (Television and Popular Culture)

By David Marc, Robert Thompson

David Marc And Robert J. Thompson. Originally Published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1992. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [313]-318) And Index.