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.

Filmografi

The Occupation of the American Mind2016 · Self - Professor, University of MassachusettsThe Codes of Gender2010 · HimselfAdvertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse2018 · Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media1997 · HimselfFeeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis2013 · selfDreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video2007 · Himself (Narrator)