As Gordon Parks’ blaxploitation classic “Shaft,” released nationwide on July 2, 1971, celebrates its 50th anniversary, a proper revision of its ethos is overdue. An anachronistic “Shaft” that promotes ...
The chronological pop culture history of rough and tumble private investigator John Shaft unfolds like this: The novel “Shaft” by Ernest Tidyman (1970), the film “Shaft” starring Richard Roundtree ...