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