Putney Swope
Up Madison Ave.
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A wildly irreverent, formally inventive satire of advertising and race in America that uses absurdist humor and rapid-fire visual gags to skewer corporate hypocrisy and systemic racism.
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.
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