Sut Jhally
Sut Jhally is Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and founder and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation (MEF). He is one of the world's leading scholars looking at the role played by advertising and popular culture in the processes of social control and identity construction. The author of numerous books and articles on media (including The Codes of Advertising and Enlightened Racism) he is also an award-winning teacher (a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Massachusetts, where the student newspaper has also voted him "Best professor"). In addition, he has been awarded the Distinguished Outreach Award, and was selected to deliver a Distinguished Faculty Lecture in 2007.
He is best known as the producer and director of a number of films and videos (including Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video; Tough Guise: Media, Violence and the Crisis of Masculinity; and Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire) that deal with issues ranging from gender, sexuality and race to commercialism, violence and politics. Born in Kenya, raised in England, and educated in graduate studies in Canada, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Films (42)
Atrocity Inc.
2024 · Director, Editor, Writer, Executive Producer
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2022 · Executive Producer
Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
2021 · Director
The Man Card
2020 · Executive Producer
The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots
2018 · Executive Producer
Digital Disconnect
2018 · Executive Producer
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
2018 · Director, Writer, Editor
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
2017 · Director, Executive Producer
The Occupation of the American Mind
2016 · Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts, Executive Producer
Guyland
2015 · Producer, Executive Producer, Camera Operator
Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination
2014 · Director
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
2013 · self, Executive Producer
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
2012 · Director, Producer, Editor
The Codes of Gender
2010 · Himself, Writer, Editor, Director
The Mean World Syndrome
2010 · Executive Producer
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
2010 · Director, Editor
Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
2010 · Director
This Land Is Our Land
2010 · Director
Capitalism Hits the Fan
2009 · Director
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
2007 · Himself (Narrator), Writer, Director, Editor
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
2007 · Executive Producer
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
2006 · Editor, Director
Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs
2006 · Writer
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
2004 · Director
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
2004 · Director
No Logo
2003 · Director
Wrestling with Manhood
2003 · Writer, Director
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
2003 · Executive Producer
Playing Unfair
2002 · Executive Producer
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
2001 · Executive Producer
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
2000 · Executive Producer
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
2000 · Director
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
2000 · Executive Producer
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
1999 · Director
Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
1998 · Director
Advertising and the End of the World
1998 · Writer, Editor, Producer, Director
On 'Orientalism'
1998 · Director
Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”
1998 · Director
The Myth Of The Liberal Media
1998 · Director
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
1997 · Himself, Director, Editor, Producer, Cinematography
Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
1997 · Director
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
1997 · Director, Producer
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