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…

Directed

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

Also appeared in

1. The Occupation of the American Mind (2016) — Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts
2. The Codes of Gender (2010) — Himself
3. Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media (1997) — Himself
4. Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis (2013) — self
5. Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video (2007) — Himself (Narrator)
6. Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse (2018)