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Mister Rogers' neighborhood : children, television, and Fred Rogers

Author: Mark Collins; Margaret Mary Kimmel; Bob Garfield; Marian Wright Edelman
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. ©1996
Edition/Format:  Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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,
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Genre/Form: Children's television programs
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Mister Rogers' neighborhood.
Pittsburgh, Penn : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1996
(OCoLC)604192175
Named Person: Fred Rogers; Fred Rogers
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mark Collins; Margaret Mary Kimmel; Bob Garfield; Marian Wright Edelman
ISBN: 0822939215 9780822939214 0822956527 9780822956525
OCLC Number: 33983616
Description: xix, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Responsibility: Mark Collins and Margaret Mary Kimmel, editors.

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