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.
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
(self)
The Codes of Gender
(Himself)
The Occupation of the American Mind
(Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts)
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
(Himself (Narrator))
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
(Himself)
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
(Director)
This Land Is Our Land
(Director)
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
(Director)
The Codes of Gender
(Writer)
The Codes of Gender
(Editor)
The Codes of Gender
(Director)
Advertising and the End of the World
(Writer)
Advertising and the End of the World
(Editor)
Advertising and the End of the World
(Producer)
No Logo
(Director)
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
(Director)
On 'Orientalism'
(Director)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
(Director)
Capitalism Hits the Fan
(Director)
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
(Director)
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
(Editor)
Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
(Director)
Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
(Director)
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
(Director)
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
(Executive Producer)
The Occupation of the American Mind
(Executive Producer)
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
(Producer)
Playing Unfair
(Creator)
The Mean World Syndrome
(Executive Producer)
Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
(Director)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
(Executive Producer)
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
(Executive Producer)
Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
(Director)
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
(Executive Producer)
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
(Writer)
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
(Director)
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
(Editor)
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
(Director)
Wrestling with Manhood
(Writer)
Wrestling with Manhood
(Director)
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
(Director)
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
(Writer)
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
(Editor)
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
(Director)
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
(Executive Producer)
Digital Disconnect
(Executive Producer)
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
(Executive Producer)
Advertising and the End of the World
(Director)
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
(Editor)
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
(Director)
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
(Executive Producer)
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
(Producer)
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
(Editor)
The Man Card
(Executive Producer)
The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots
(Executive Producer)
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
(Director)
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
(Editor)
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
(Producer)
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
(Cinematography)
Atrocity Inc.
(Director)
Atrocity Inc.
(Editor)
Atrocity Inc.
(Writer)
Atrocity Inc.
(Executive Producer)