Sut Jhally

Sut Jhally

  • Place of birth: Kenya

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.

Filmography

Production

Playing Unfair

2002

As Creator

This Land Is Our Land

2010

As Director

The Codes of Gender

2010

As Director

No Logo

2003

As Director

On 'Orientalism'

1998

As Director

Capitalism Hits the Fan

2009

As Director

Wrestling with Manhood

2003

As Director

The Codes of Gender

2010

As Editor

Digital Disconnect

2018

As Executive Producer

Rich Media, Poor Democracy

2003

As Executive Producer

The Man Card

2020

As Executive Producer

The Bystander Moment

0000

As Executive Producer

The Mean World Syndrome

2010

As Executive Producer

The Occupation of the American Mind

2016

As Executive Producer

The Codes of Gender

2010

As Writer

Wrestling with Manhood

2003

As Writer

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