Sylvester Stallone introduced a true American icon to the screen, in 1976’s Rocky. It is a film beloved to this day. 

In Episode 5 of EveryMan: The Masculinity in Cinema Podcast, film critics Kat Ellinger and Martyn Conterio discuss Rocky Balboa getting his shot, Stallone as a formidable artist and how the film reinvented Classical Hollywood for the age of New Hollywood.