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Sut Jhally
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…
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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.
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2024
Atrocity Inc.
Movie Director
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2022
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
Movie Director
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2020
The Man Card
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
Digital Disconnect
Movie Executive Producer
- 2018
- 2017
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2016
The Occupation of the American Mind
Movie Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts
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2015
Guyland
Movie Producer
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2014
Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination
Movie Director
- 2013
- 2012
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2010
The Codes of Gender
Movie Himself
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2010
The Mean World Syndrome
Movie Executive Producer
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2010
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
Movie Director
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2010
Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
Movie Director
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2010
This Land Is Our Land
Movie Director
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2009
Capitalism Hits the Fan
Movie Director
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2007
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
Movie Himself (Narrator)
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2007
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
Movie Executive Producer
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2006
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Movie Director
- 2006
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2004
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
Movie Director
- 2004
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2003
No Logo
Movie Director
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2003
Wrestling with Manhood
Movie Director
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2003
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Movie Executive Producer
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2002
Playing Unfair
Movie Executive Producer
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2001
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
Movie Executive Producer
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2000
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
Movie Executive Producer
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2000
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
Movie Director
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2000
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
Movie Executive Producer
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1999
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Movie Director
- 1998
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1998
Advertising and the End of the World
Movie Producer
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1998
Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”
Movie Director
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1998
On 'Orientalism'
Movie Director
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1997
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Movie Himself
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1997
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
Movie Director
