Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
Kenya
Credits
41 titles
Sut Jhally
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Atrocity Inc.
Director
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Executive Producer
Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
Director
The Man Card
Executive Producer
The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots
Executive Producer
Digital Disconnect
Executive Producer
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
Director
The Occupation of the American Mind
Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts
Guyland
Producer
Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination
Director
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
self
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
Director
The Codes of Gender
Himself
The Mean World Syndrome
Executive Producer
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
Director
Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
Director
This Land Is Our Land
Director
Capitalism Hits the Fan
Director
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
Himself (Narrator)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
Executive Producer
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Director
Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs
Writer
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
Director
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
Director
No Logo
Director
Wrestling with Manhood
Director
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Executive Producer
Playing Unfair
Executive Producer
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
Executive Producer
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
Executive Producer
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
Executive Producer
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
Director
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Director
Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
Director
Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”
Director
Advertising and the End of the World
Producer
On 'Orientalism'
Director
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Himself
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
Director
Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
Director