Directing
Sut Jhally
Kenya
30 films
Bio
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.
Filmography
Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
Director
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Executive Producer
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
Executive Producer
Atrocity Inc.
Director
Guyland
Producer
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Director
The Occupation of the American Mind
Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts
The Codes of Gender
Himself
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Himself
Capitalism Hits the Fan
Director
No Logo
Director
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
self