Sut Jhally
Known for: Directing
Born: —
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
41 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
10.0
Atrocity Inc.
2024
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Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2022
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Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
2021
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The Man Card
2020
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The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots
2018
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Digital Disconnect
2018
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Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
2018
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Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
2017
8.4
The Occupation of the American Mind
2016
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Guyland
2015
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Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination
2014
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Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
2013
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Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
20126.5
The Codes of Gender
2010
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The Mean World Syndrome
2010
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Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
2010
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Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
2010
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This Land Is Our Land
2010
7.0
Capitalism Hits the Fan
2009
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Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
2007
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Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
2007
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Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
2006
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Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs
2006
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Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
2004
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Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
2004
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No Logo
2003
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Wrestling with Manhood
2003
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Rich Media, Poor Democracy
2003
4.0
Playing Unfair
2002
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Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
2001
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Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
2000
6.2
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
2000NR
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
20005.9
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
1999
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Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
19989.0
Advertising and the End of the World
1998NR
On 'Orientalism'
1998
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Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”
1998
8.0
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
1997
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Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
1997
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bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
1997