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Extra: American Icons: Shaft
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Jun 25, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In 1971 Richard Roundtree stepped out of a subway entrance to the Oscar-winning sounds of Isaac Hayes, and changed American movie-making. The box-office success of Shaft, about a fiercely independent, courageous, and sexy private eye, led to an explosion of black action B-movies, and crystalized a version of black macho cool that hadn’t been shown on the big screen before. And it was all put together by one of the most important American photographers of the mid-20th century, Gordon Parks. The story of Shaft is told by those that made the movie, and those they inspired.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jun 25, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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