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.
Filmography (6)
Crew (35)
- Atrocity Inc.
- Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
- Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
- The Man Card
- Digital Disconnect
- The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots
- Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
- Guyland
- Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination
- Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
- Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
- This Land Is Our Land
- The Mean World Syndrome
- Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
- Capitalism Hits the Fan
- Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
- Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
- Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs
- Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
- Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
- No Logo
- Wrestling with Manhood
- Rich Media, Poor Democracy
- Playing Unfair
- Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
- Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
- Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
- Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
- Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
- Advertising and the End of the World
- On 'Orientalism'
- Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
- Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”
- Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
- bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation