Research Catalog

Title

Mister Rogers' neighborhood : children, television, and Fred Rogers / Mark Collins and Margaret Mary Kimmel, editors.

Publication

• Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
• ©1996

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Details

Additional Authors

• Collins, Mark, 1959-
• Kimmel, Margaret Mary
• Garfield, Bob
• Edelman, Marian Wright

Description

xix, 249 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• The pieces included in this volume address the enduring influence and importance of Fred Rogers' work in children's television. The contributors, representing a wide range of disciplines - art, psychology, medicine, social criticism, theology, music, and communications - include David Bianculli, Lynette Friedrich Cofer, Nancy E. Curry, Ellen Galinsky, George Gerbner, William Guy, Lynn Johnson, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Susan Linn, Mary Rawson, Mark Shelton, Roderick Townley, Paula Lawrence Wehmiller, and Eugenia Zukerman interviewing Yo-Yo Ma.
• Born in 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Fred Rogers began his television career in 1951 at NBC. He became program director in 1954 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 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.

Subject

• Rogers, Fred > Influence
• Rogers, Fred
• Mister Rogers' neighborhood (Television program)
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Genre/Form

• Juvenile works.
• Children's television programs.
• Émissions télévisées pour enfants.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-246) and index.

Contents

Foreword: Born again in Rogers / Bob Garfield -- 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 Zukerman -- 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 / Lynette 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.

ISBN

• 0822939215
• 9780822939214
• 0822956527
• 9780822956525

LCCN

95048461

OCLC

• ocm33983616
• 33983616
• SCSB-2085206

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library