Sut Jhally

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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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The Occupation of the American Mind

as Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts
Released: 2016-01-19

Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and...

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Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

as Himself
Released: 1997-01-01

Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the...

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

as self
Released: 2013-01-01

In the past three decades, obesity rates in the US have more than doubled for children and...

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Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse

as uncredited
Released: 2018-03-20

In this highly anticipated sequel to his groundbreaking, ADVERTISING AND THE END OF THE WORLD,...

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

as Himself (Narrator)
Released: 2007-12-04

Dreamworlds 3 examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and...

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