The Shaft trilogy is composed of action-crime ... The films are characterized by their blaxploitation characteristics.

Richard Roundtree broke ground with his role of detective John Shaft in 1970s Richard Roundtree ... among the first of what came to be known as Blaxploitation films The 1970s movie franchise ...

The Shaft trilogy is composed of action-crime ... The films are characterized by their blaxploitation characteristics.

MGM Studios released the first big budget Hollywood blaxploitation film Shaft, which went on to win an Oscar. The statuette was awarded to long-time Stax records artist and arranger Isaac Hayes ...

The film Shaft helped establish the genre of Blaxploitation film and crossed Hayes over to the mainstream. In many ways Shaft was the apex of Hayes’s career. Hayes’s fortune mirrored closely ...

During the Blaxploitation era, legends like Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield reinvented the game by helping to infuse variations of the sound into classics like Shaft and Super Fly, respectively.