Let the Little Children Come to Me: Fred Rogers, the Good Man as TV Educator

Sara Martín

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-22144-6_16

Let the Little Children Come to Me: Fred Rogers, the Good Man as TV Educator

Sara Martín^*

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Abstract

Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an exceptional man and a major American TV personality, whose show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1968–1975, 1979–2001) became an iconic feature of US TV. This chapter examines Rogers’ essential goodness and detoxed masculinity as represented in the biography by Maxwell King The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers (2018), the documentary by Morgan Neville Won’t You Be my Neighbor? (2018), and the fiction film by Marielle Heller A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). Rogers’ irreproachable, honest dealing with little children shows, in these times when adult men’s interest in children is always viewed with suspicion, that extremely positive role models may emerge from encouraging sensitive men like him to approach little children.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture
Subtitle of host publication	in Search of Good Men
Editors	Sara Martín, M. Isabel Santaulària
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Pages	267-282
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031221446
ISBN (Print)	9783031221439, 978-3-031-22146-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22144-6_16
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2023

Keywords

Biography
Children
Children’s TV
Detoxing
Documentary
Fred Rogers
Goodness
Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood

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