Sut Jhally
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
- Directing
- Born
- Kenya
Known for
- Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (2004) — Director
- Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006) — Editor
- No Logo (2003) — Director
- Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women (2010) — Director
- The Occupation of the American Mind (2016) — Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts
- Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004) — Director
- Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women (2000) — Director
- Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (1999) — Director
- The Codes of Gender (2010) — Himself
- Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media (1997) — Himself
- Capitalism Hits the Fan (2009) — Director
- Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs (2006) — Writer
- Advertising and the End of the World (1998) — Writer
- Atrocity Inc. (2024) — Director
- Playing Unfair (2002) — Executive Producer
- The Myth Of The Liberal Media (1998) — Director