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.
Personal Details
Movies (41)
Atrocity Inc.
Director (Directing)
2024
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Executive Producer (Production)
2022
Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
Director (Directing)
2021
The Man Card
Executive Producer (Production)
2020
The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots
Executive Producer (Production)
2018
Digital Disconnect
Executive Producer (Production)
2018
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
2018
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
Director (Directing)
2017
The Occupation of the American Mind
as Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts
2016
Guyland
Producer (Production)
2015
Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination
Director (Directing)
2014
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
as self
2013
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
Director (Directing)
2012
The Codes of Gender
as Himself
2010
The Mean World Syndrome
Executive Producer (Production)
2010
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
Director (Directing)
2010
Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
Director (Directing)
2010
This Land Is Our Land
Director (Directing)
2010
Capitalism Hits the Fan
Director (Directing)
2009
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
as Himself (Narrator)
2007
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
Executive Producer (Production)
2007
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Editor (Editing)
2006
Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs
Writer (Writing)
2006
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
Director (Directing)
2004
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
Director (Directing)
2004
No Logo
Director (Directing)
2003
Wrestling with Manhood
Writer (Writing)
2003
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Executive Producer (Production)
2003
Playing Unfair
Executive Producer (Production)
2002
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
Executive Producer (Production)
2001
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
Executive Producer (Production)
2000
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
Director (Directing)
2000
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
Executive Producer (Production)
2000
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Director (Directing)
1999
Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
Director (Directing)
1998
Advertising and the End of the World
Writer (Writing)
1998
On 'Orientalism'
Director (Directing)
1998
Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”
Director (Directing)
1998
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
as Himself
1997
Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
Director (Directing)
1997
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
Director (Directing)
1997