Sut Jhally

Known for DirectingKenya

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Atrocity Inc.

Advertising and the End of the World

The Occupation of the American Mind

Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

Capitalism Hits the Fan

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire

Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land

The Codes of Gender

No Logo

Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity

Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs

Playing Unfair

Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL

Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life

The Man Card

Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse

Digital Disconnect

The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots

Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror

Guyland

Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination

Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis

Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships

This Land Is Our Land

The Mean World Syndrome

Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent

Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video

Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property

Wrestling with Manhood

Rich Media, Poor Democracy

Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music

Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games

Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial

On 'Orientalism'

Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media

Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”

Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier

bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation