Download Dreams of the Hoop
Dreams of the HoopDownload Dreams of the Hoop
Published Date: 01 Jan 1997
Publisher: Pebble Beach Pr Ltd
Original Languages: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN10: 188374010X
File size: 18 Mb
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Download Dreams of the Hoop. "Hoop Dreams" is, on one level, a documentary about two African-American kids named William Gates and Arthur Agee, from Chicago's inner city, who are gifted basketball players and dream of someday starring in the NBA. On another level, it is about much larger subjects: about ambition, competition, race and class in our society. Lauren Scharhag is the author of eleven books, including West Side Girl & Other Poems and Requiem for a Robot Dog (Cajun Mutt Press). Her work has appeared in over 100 literary venues around the world. Hoop Dreams was not originally intended to be a movie. James and producers Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert initially envisioned the project as a half-hour special on public television. Hoop Dreams of America, Miami, Florida. 712 likes 32 were here. Hoops Dreams strives to develop and enhance, through the game of basketball, the skills that children need to succeed as future Hoop Dreams doesn't treat its documentary material like a traditional documentary would. Though they're there, the interview sound bites aren't excessive, and the film doesn't bother overloading Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund offers students a unique opportunity to develop relationships with local professionals, receive academic scholarships, build networks, and access resources that will help enrich lives. Most of these students are the However, Hoop Dream is not just basketball, but it is all about the reality as well as the texture of the daily existence in American cities. In this movie, the lives of Gates and Agee are followed right from high school into college, thus making it easy for us to understand human dimensions, which are behind life in a ghetto as can be seen behind media images. My favourite film: Hoop Dreams In our writers' favourite films series, Christian Bennett explains why the story of two teenagers aiming to make it big in basketball is a slam dunk of a documentary Shawn Harrington, who was in the 1994 movie
