Sut Jhally
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Directing

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Place of birth

Kenya

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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
Acting roles
YearMovie / TV show / OtherRole
2018Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
2016The Occupation of the American MindSelf - Professor, University of Massachusetts
2013Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisisself
2010The Codes of GenderHimself
2007Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music VideoHimself (Narrator)
1997Stuart Hall: Representation & the MediaHimself
Credits
YearMovie / TV show / OtherRole
The Bystander MomentExecutive Producer
2022Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFLExecutive Producer
2021Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual LifeDirector
2020The Man CardExecutive Producer
2018Digital DisconnectExecutive Producer
2018Advertising at the Edge of the ApocalypseDirector
2018Advertising at the Edge of the ApocalypseWriter
2018Advertising at the Edge of the ApocalypseEditor
2017Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on TerrorDirector
2017Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on TerrorExecutive Producer
2016The Occupation of the American MindExecutive Producer
2013Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health CrisisExecutive Producer
2012Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual RelationshipsDirector
2012Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual RelationshipsProducer
2012Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual RelationshipsEditor
2010The Codes of GenderWriter
2010The Codes of GenderEditor
2010The Codes of GenderDirector
2010Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of WomenDirector
2010Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of WomenEditor
2010This Land Is Our LandDirector
2010The Mean World SyndromeExecutive Producer
2010Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual ConsentDirector
2009Capitalism Hits the FanDirector
2007Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual PropertyExecutive Producer
2007Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music VideoWriter
2007Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music VideoDirector
2007Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music VideoEditor
2006Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a PeopleEditor
2006Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a PeopleDirector
2004Peace, Propaganda & the Promised LandDirector
2004Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American EmpireDirector
2003No LogoDirector
2003Wrestling with ManhoodWriter
2003Wrestling with ManhoodDirector
2003Rich Media, Poor DemocracyExecutive Producer
2002Playing UnfairCreator
2000Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of WomenDirector
2000Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video GamesExecutive Producer
2000Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes HypercommercialExecutive Producer
1999Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in MasculinityDirector
1998Advertising and the End of the WorldWriter
1998Advertising and the End of the WorldEditor
1998Advertising and the End of the WorldProducer
1998On 'Orientalism'Director
1998Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass MediaDirector
1998Advertising and the End of the WorldDirector
1997Stuart Hall: Representation & the MediaDirector
1997Stuart Hall: Representation & the MediaEditor
1997Stuart Hall: Representation & the MediaProducer
1997Stuart Hall: Representation & the MediaCinematography
1997Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating SignifierDirector
1997bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & TransformationDirector
1997bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & TransformationProducer