Robert C. Allen is Smith Professor of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Speaking of Soap Operas and Horrible Prettines: Burlesque and American Culture and coauthor of Film History: Theory and Practice.
An important contribution to the literature of mass
communications.Jane Feuer, University of Pittsburgh
"An important contribution to the literature of mass
communications.Jane Feuer, University of Pittsburgh"
Allen's detailed study of the soap opera offers a superb model for
television scholars.Horace M. Newcomb
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