SUT JHALLY

Sut Jhally
Sut Jhally
Gender: Male
Known for: Directing
Birthday: TBA
Place of Birth: Kenya

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.

Filmography

Production

2024·
Atrocity Inc.
Executive Producer, Writer, Editor, Director
2022·
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Executive Producer
2021·
Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
Director
2020·
The Man Card
Executive Producer
2018·
The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots
Executive Producer
2018·
Digital Disconnect
Executive Producer
2018·
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Director, Editor, Writer
2017·
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
Executive Producer, Director
2016·
The Occupation of the American Mind
Executive Producer
2015·
Guyland
Camera Operator, Executive Producer, Producer
2014·
Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination
Director
2013·
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
Executive Producer
2012·
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
Producer, Editor, Director
2010·
Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
Director
2010·
The Mean World Syndrome
Executive Producer
2010·
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
Editor, Director
2010·
The Codes of Gender
Editor, Director, Writer
2010·
This Land Is Our Land
Director
2009·
Capitalism Hits the Fan
Director
2007·
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
Director, Editor, Writer
2007·
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
Executive Producer
2006·
Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs
Writer
2006·
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Editor, Director
2004·
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
Director
2004·
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
Director
2003·
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Executive Producer
2003·
Wrestling with Manhood
Director, Writer
2003·
No Logo
Director
2002·
Playing Unfair
Executive Producer
2001·
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
Executive Producer
2000·
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
Executive Producer
2000·
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
Executive Producer
2000·
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
Director
1999·
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Director
1998·
Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”
Director
1998·
Advertising and the End of the World
Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
1998·
Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
Director
1998·
On 'Orientalism'
Director
1997·
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Cinematography, Editor, Producer, Director
1997·
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
Director, Producer
1997·
Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
Director