Sut Jhally

Sut Jhally

DirectorProducerActorWriter Kenya 1997–2024 (27 year career)
6.8 avg rating

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 Dist…

Known For

Filmography

Crew (41)

Movies (41)

Atrocity Inc.

Atrocity Inc.

2024

Director

10.0
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL

Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL

2022

Executive Producer

Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life

Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life

2021

Director

The Man Card

The Man Card

2020

Executive Producer

The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots

The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots

2018

Executive Producer

Digital Disconnect

Digital Disconnect

2018

Executive Producer

Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse

Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse

2018

Director

Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror

Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror

2017

Director

The Occupation of the American Mind

The Occupation of the American Mind

2016

Executive Producer

8.4
Guyland

Guyland

2015

Producer

Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination

Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination

2014

Director

Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis

Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis

2013

Executive Producer

Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships

Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships

2012

Director

The Mean World Syndrome

The Mean World Syndrome

2010

Executive Producer

Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent

Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent

2010

Director

Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women

Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women

2010

Director

6.7
This Land Is Our Land

This Land Is Our Land

2010

Director

The Codes of Gender

The Codes of Gender

2010

Writer

6.5
Capitalism Hits the Fan

Capitalism Hits the Fan

2009

Director

7.0
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property

Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property

2007

Executive Producer

Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video

Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video

2007

Director

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

2006

Director

5.8
Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs

Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs

2006

Writer

5.2
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land

2004

Director

6.4
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire

2004

Director

6.6
Rich Media, Poor Democracy

Rich Media, Poor Democracy

2003

Executive Producer

No Logo

No Logo

2003

Director

6.3
Wrestling with Manhood

Wrestling with Manhood

2003

Director

Playing Unfair

Playing Unfair

2002

Executive Producer

4.0
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music

Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music

2001

Executive Producer

Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women

Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women

2000

Director

6.0
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games

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

Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity

Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity

1999

Director

5.9
Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media

Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media

1998

Director

Advertising and the End of the World

Advertising and the End of the World

1998

Producer

Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”

Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”

1998

Director

On 'Orientalism'

On 'Orientalism'

1998

Director

Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier

Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier

1997

Director

Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

1997

Director

8.0
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation

bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation

1997

Director