Sut Jhally
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 29, 1955 (age 71)
- Birthplace
- Kenya
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
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
No Logo
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
The Occupation of the American Mind
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Capitalism Hits the Fan
Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs
Atrocity Inc.
Playing Unfair
Filmography
Atrocity Inc.
Movie · Director
Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
Movie · Director
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Movie · Director
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
Movie · Director
Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination
Movie · Director
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
Movie · Director
This Land Is Our Land
Movie · Director
The Codes of Gender
Movie · Director
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
Movie · Director
Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
Movie · Director
Capitalism Hits the Fan
Movie · Director
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
Movie · Director
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Movie · Director
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
Movie · Director
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
Movie · Director
No Logo
Movie · Director
Wrestling with Manhood
Movie · Director
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
Movie · Director
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Movie · Director
On 'Orientalism'
Movie · Director
Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
Movie · Director
Advertising and the End of the World
Movie · Director
Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”
Movie · Director
The Myth Of The Liberal Media
Movie · Director
Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
Movie · Director
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
Movie · Director
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Movie · Director