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
all 37
Movies 37
Director 18
Producer 9
self 6
Creator 1
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL (2022)
The Man Card (2020)
Digital Disconnect (2018)
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse (2018)
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror (2017)
The Occupation of the American Mind (2016)
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis (2013)
The Mean World Syndrome (2010)
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video (2007)
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)
No Logo (2003)
Wrestling with Manhood (2003)
Rich Media, Poor Democracy (2003)
Playing Unfair (2002)
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games (2000)
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial (2000)
On 'Orientalism' (1998)
Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier (1997)
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media (1997)
Pornland
The Bystander Moment
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GenderMale
Birthday1955-05-29 (69 years old)
Birth PlaceKenya
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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