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

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.

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