Hoop Dreams

Edelman ER, Rogers C, Hoop dreams. Stents without restenosis, Circulation 1996 94(6) I 199-1202. 

A film like Hoop Dreams, its journalistic standards are impeccable. And yet it s not just a piece of journalism, it s something bigger, it s got bigger ambitions. Journalism makes use of characters for journalistic purposes. People exist in a story because they ve been shoved into the story to back up the point of the journalist, or as source material for the story. In documentaries, it seems to be the other way around. You go with the characters and then the story builds itself around them. 

Hoop Dreams Produced by Frederick Marx, Steve James, and Peter Gilbert directed by Steve James edited by Frederick Marx, Steve James, and Bill Haugse. 

In the usa plastics moulded the happy-go-lucky American dream with the fluorescently pigmented Hula Hoops, Frisbees and Big Wheels of the... 

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