Robert J. Thompson
Robert James Thompson is an American media scholar. He's been a professor at Syracuse University since 1990 and is the founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture. He has written multiple books and has been interviewed on many documentaries, radio and television shows for his expansive knowledge in television history.
Known for
- American Experience (1988)
- American Greed (2007)
- The Story of Late Night (2021)
- Dark Side of the 90's (2021)
- The Unexplained (1996)
- Dark Side of the 2000s (2023)
- Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants (2009)
- TV We Love (2025)
- What Is Jeopardy!?: Alex Trebek and America's Most Popular Quiz Show (2020)
- Menendez Brothers: Victims or Villains (2024)
- The Real Mad Men of Advertising (2017)
- Notorious (2019)
- Mr. SOUL! (2018)
- Four Falls of Buffalo (2015)
- Driving America (2015)
- American Cannibal (2006)
- Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)