Sut Jhally
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Kenya
Sut Jhally
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.
Known For
Acting
(2018)
(2016)
The Occupation of the American Mind
as Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts
(2013)
(2010)
The Codes of Gender
as Himself
(2007)
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
as Himself (Narrator)
(1997)
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
as Himself
Crew
(2024)
Atrocity Inc.
Director, Editor, Writer, Executive Producer
(2022)
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Executive Producer
(2021)
(2020)
The Man Card
Executive Producer
(2018)
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Director, Writer, Editor
(2018)
Digital Disconnect
Executive Producer
(2018)
The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots
Executive Producer
(2017)
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
Director, Executive Producer
(2016)
The Occupation of the American Mind
Executive Producer
(2014)
(2013)
(2012)
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
Director, Producer, Editor
(2010)
This Land Is Our Land
Director
(2010)
The Codes of Gender
Writer, Editor, Director
(2010)
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
Director, Editor
(2010)
The Mean World Syndrome
Executive Producer
(2010)
(2009)
Capitalism Hits the Fan
Director
(2007)
(2007)
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
Writer, Director, Editor
(2006)
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Editor, Director
(2004)
(2004)
(2003)
No Logo
Director
(2003)
Wrestling with Manhood
Writer, Director
(2003)
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Executive Producer
(2002)
Playing Unfair
Creator
(2000)
(2000)
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
Executive Producer
(2000)
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
Executive Producer
(1999)
(1998)
Advertising and the End of the World
Writer, Editor, Producer, Director
(1998)
On 'Orientalism'
Director
(1998)
(1997)
(1997)
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
Director, Producer
(1997)
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Director, Editor, Producer, Cinematography