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