Sut Jhally

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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.

Film	Credit
Atrocity Inc.2024 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life2021 · Director	Director
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse2018 · Actor, Writer, Director	Actor, Writer, Director
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror2017 · Director	Director
The Occupation of the American Mind2016 · Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts	Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts
Guyland2015 · Producer	Producer
Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination2014 · Director	Director
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis2013 · self	self
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships2012 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
TThe Codes of Gender2010 · Himself, Writer, Director	Himself, Writer, Director
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women2010 · Director	Director
Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent2010 · Director	Director
This Land Is Our Land2010 · Director	Director
Capitalism Hits the Fan2009 · Director	Director
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video2007 · Himself (Narrator), Writer, Director	Himself (Narrator), Writer, Director
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People2006 · Director	Director
Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs2006 · Writer	Writer
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land2004 · Director	Director
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire2004 · Director	Director
No Logo2003 · Director	Director
Wrestling with Manhood2003 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women2000 · Director	Director
TTough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity1999 · Director	Director
Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media1998 · Director	Director
AAdvertising and the End of the World1998 · Producer, Writer, Director	Producer, Writer, Director
OOn 'Orientalism'1998 · Director	Director
Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”1998 · Director	Director
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media1997 · Himself, Director, Producer	Himself, Director, Producer
Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier1997 · Director	Director
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation1997 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director