Known for

Directing

Place of birth

Kenya

Sut Jhally

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.

Titles

The Occupation of the American Mind

Movie • 2016

Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse

Movie • 2018

No Logo

Movie • 2003

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land

Movie • 2004

Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property

Movie • 2007

Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs

Movie • 2006

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire

Movie • 2004

bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation

Movie • 1997

The Myth Of The Liberal Media

Movie • 1998