Sut Jhally
Directing
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
Directing26
movieAtrocity Inc.
2024
Director
movieThis Land Is Our Land
2010
Director
movieCapitalism Hits the Fan
2009
Director
movieNo Logo
2003
Director
movieWrestling with Manhood
2003
Director
Production20
movieAtrocity Inc.
2024
Executive Producer
movieBehind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2022
Executive Producer
movieThe Man Card
2020
Executive Producer
movieThe Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots
2018
Executive Producer
movieDigital Disconnect
2018
Executive Producer
movieConstructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
2017
Executive Producer
movieThe Occupation of the American Mind
2016
Executive Producer
movieGuyland
2015
Producer, Executive Producer
movieFeeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
2013
Executive Producer
movieThe Mean World Syndrome
2010
Executive Producer
movieFreedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
2007
Executive Producer
movieRich Media, Poor Democracy
2003
Executive Producer
moviePlaying Unfair
2002
Executive Producer
movieMoney for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
2001
Executive Producer
movieGame Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
2000
Executive Producer
Editing9
movieAtrocity Inc.
2024
Editor
Writing7
movieAtrocity Inc.
2024
Writer
Acting6
movieThe Occupation of the American Mind
2016
Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts
movieDreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
2007
Himself (Narrator)
Camera1
movieGuyland
2015
Camera Operator
Crew1
movieStuart Hall: Representation & the Media
1997
Cinematography