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.
Acting (5 movies)
Directing (26 movies)
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
2004
This Land Is Our Land
2010
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
1999
The Codes of Gender
2010
No Logo
2003
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
2010
On 'Orientalism'
1998
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
2004
Capitalism Hits the Fan
2009
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
2000
Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
1997
Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
2021
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
1997
Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
1998
Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
2010
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
2007
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
2012
Wrestling with Manhood
2003
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
2018
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
2017
Advertising and the End of the World
1998
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
2006
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
1997
Atrocity Inc.
2024
Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination
2014
Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”
1998