Directing
Sut Jhally
EN cinema · 42 credits
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.
Known for
Filmography
Atrocity Inc.
Director, Editor, Writer, Executive Producer
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Executive Producer
The Man Card
Executive Producer
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Actor, Writer, Editor, Director
Digital Disconnect
Executive Producer
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
Director, Executive Producer
The Occupation of the American Mind
as Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts, Executive Producer
Guyland
Producer, Executive Producer, Camera Operator
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
as self, Executive Producer
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
Director, Editor, Producer
The Codes of Gender
2010
The Codes of Gender
as Himself, Writer, Director, Editor
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
Director, Editor
The Mean World Syndrome
Executive Producer
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
as Himself (Narrator), Writer, Editor, Director
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
Executive Producer
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Director, Editor
No Logo
Director
Wrestling with Manhood
Writer, Director
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Executive Producer
Playing Unfair
Executive Producer
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
Executive Producer
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
Executive Producer
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
2000
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
Executive Producer
Advertising and the End of the World
1998
Advertising and the End of the World
Producer, Editor, Writer, Director
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
as Himself, Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematography
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
Producer, Director