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Think Locally, Act Globally
2016
Overview
No blaxploitation-era star made as many films or helped shape the cycle more than Fred “The Hammer” Williamson. Crafting his own unique hypermasculine screen persona, Williamson was able to flex his muscles playing gangsters, detectives, and cowboys. With his ever-present thin cigar, bulging biceps, and phallic firearms, the Hammer became the archetype of male power in a cinematic era that was primarily based around reclaiming black masculinity. Never graced with the singularly transcendent roles afforded Richard Roundtree or Ron O’Neal, Williamson was nevertheless the biggest star of the era.
From 1972 to 1976, no other black actor made more films,
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN
9781477309070, 1477309071
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