Mister Rogers' neighborhood : children, television, and Fred Rogers / with a new foreword by David "Mr. McFeeley" Newell ; edited by Mark Collins and Margaret Mary Kimmel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Newell, David, 1938- writer of foreword.

Collins, Mark, 1959- editor.

Kimmel, Margaret Mary, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rogers, Fred--Influence.

Rogers, Fred.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 249 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]

Summary:

Updated edition featuring a new foreword by David "Mr. McFeely" Newell. Born in 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Fred Rogers began his television career in 1951 at NBC. In 1954, he became program director for the newly founded WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, the first community-supported television station in the United States. From 1954 to 1961, Rogers and Josie Carey produced and performed in WQED's The Children's Corner, which became part of the the Saturday morning lineup on NBC in 1955 and 1956.It was after Fred Rogers was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1963, with a special charge of serving children and their families through television, that he developed what became the award-winning PBS series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

A New Foreword: David "Mr. McFeely" Newell

Foreword: Born Again in Rogers - Bob Garfield

Preface - Mark Collins and Margaret Mary Kimmel

Fred Rogers and the Significance of Story - George Gerbner

What Is Essential Is Invisible to the Eye" - Jeanne Marie Laskas

The Myth, the Man, the Legend - David Bianculli

The Reality of Make-Believe - Nancy E. Curry

Fred's Shoes: The Meaning of Transitions in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Roderick Townley

Musical Notes: An Interview with Yo-Yo Ma - Eugenia Zuckerman

With an Open Hand: Puppetry on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Susan Linn

The Theology of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - William Guy

Mister Rogers: Keeper of the Dream - Paula Lawrence Wehmiller

Make-Believe, Truth, and Freedom: Television in the Public Interest - Lynetter Friedrich Cofer

Mister Rogers Speaks to Parents - Ellen Galinsky

Other Viewers, Other Rooms - Mary Rawson

A Neighborhood with Forest and Trees: Allies, Coalitions, Kids, and Mister Rogers - Mark Shelton

A Very Special Neighborhood: A Photo Essay - Lynn Johnson

Afterword: A Nation of Neighborhoods - Marian Wright Edelman

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822987543

0822987546