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‘Shaft’ Helped Create the Archetype Black Action Hero of the 1970s
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‘Shaft’ Helped Create the Archetype Black Action Hero of the 1970s

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 / 12 July 2022

Gordon Parks’ classic blaxploitation film Shaft presents Richard Roundtree as a swaggering, controversial action hero in gritty, early ’70s New York.

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An Unlikely Weapon: The Eddie Adams Story

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 / 10 April 2009
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Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI Photographers

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 / 28 August 2008