Sut Jhally
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 29, 1955
- Birthplace
- Kenya
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
Atrocity Inc. 2024
Director, Editor, Writer, Executive Producer
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL 2022
Executive Producer
Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life 2021
Director
The Man Card 2020
Executive Producer
The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots 2018
Executive Producer
Digital Disconnect 2018
Executive Producer
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse 2018
Actor, Director, Writer, Editor
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror 2017
Director, Executive Producer
The Occupation of the American Mind 2016
as Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts, Executive Producer
Guyland 2015
Producer, Executive Producer, Camera Operator
Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination 2014
Director
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis 2013
as self, Executive Producer
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships 2012
Director, Producer, Editor
- The Codes of Gender
The Codes of Gender 2010
as Himself, Writer, Editor, Director
The Mean World Syndrome 2010
Executive Producer
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
Capitalism Hits the Fan 2009
Director
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video 2007
as Himself (Narrator), Writer, Director, Editor
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property 2007
Executive Producer
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People 2006
Editor, Director
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
Wrestling with Manhood 2003
Writer, Director
Rich Media, Poor Democracy 2003
Executive Producer
Playing Unfair 2002
Executive Producer
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music 2001
Executive Producer
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games 2000
Executive Producer
- Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial 2000
Executive Producer
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women 2000
Director
- Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity 1999
Director
Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media 1998
Director
The Myth Of The Liberal Media 1998
Director
Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations” 1998
Director
- On 'Orientalism'
On 'Orientalism' 1998
Director
- Advertising and the End of the World
Advertising and the End of the World 1998
Writer, Editor, Producer, Director
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation 1997
Director, Producer
Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier 1997
Director
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media 1997
as Himself, Director, Editor, Producer, Cinematography
Credits from TMDB.