Director
Sut Jhally
Kenya · 27 films
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.
Best known for
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
2006 · Director, Editor
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
2004 · Director
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
2010 · Director, Editor
No Logo
2003 · Director
On Kanopy
The Occupation of the American Mind
2016 · Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts
On Kanopy
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
2004 · Director
Filmography 27
Atrocity Inc.
2024 · Director, Editor
Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
2021 · Director
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
2018 · Actor, Writer
On Kanopy
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
2017 · Director
The Occupation of the American Mind
2016 · Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts
On Kanopy
Guyland
2015 · Producer
Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination
2014 · Director
On Kanopy
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
2013 · self
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
2012 · Director, Editor
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
2010 · Director, Editor
Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
2010 · Director
This Land Is Our Land
2010 · Director
On Kanopy
Capitalism Hits the Fan
2009 · Director
On Kanopy
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
2007 · Himself (Narrator), Writer
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
2006 · Director, Editor
Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs
2006 · Writer
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
2004 · Director
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
2004 · Director
No Logo
2003 · Director
On Kanopy
Wrestling with Manhood
2003 · Writer, Director
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
2000 · Director
Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
1998 · Director
Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”
1998 · Director
On Kanopy
The Myth Of The Liberal Media
1998 · Director