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Sut Jhally

Birthplace:
Kenya

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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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Film Production

Cinematography:
1997  Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

Creator:
1997  Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
2002  Playing Unfair

Director:
1997  Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
1997  Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
1997  bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
1998  Advertising and the End of the World
1998  Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
1998  On 'Orientalism'
1999  Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
2000  Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
2002  Playing Unfair
2003  No Logo
2003  Wrestling with Manhood
2004  Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
2004  Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
2006  Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
2007  Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
2009  Capitalism Hits the Fan
2010  Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
2010  Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
2010  The Codes of Gender
2010  This Land Is Our Land
2012  Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
2017  Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
2018  Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
2021  Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
2024  Atrocity Inc.

Editor:
1997  Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
1997  Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
1997  bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
1998  Advertising and the End of the World
1998  Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
1998  On 'Orientalism'
1999  Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
2000  Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
2002  Playing Unfair
2003  No Logo
2003  Wrestling with Manhood
2004  Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
2004  Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
2006  Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
2007  Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
2009  Capitalism Hits the Fan
2010  Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
2010  Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
2010  The Codes of Gender
2010  This Land Is Our Land
2012  Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
2017  Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
2018  Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
2021  Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
2024  Atrocity Inc.

Executive Producer:
1997  Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
1997  Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
1997  bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
1998  Advertising and the End of the World
1998  Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
1998  On 'Orientalism'
1999  Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
2000  Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
2000  Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
2000  Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
2002  Playing Unfair
2003  No Logo
2003  Rich Media, Poor Democracy
2003  Wrestling with Manhood
2004  Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
2004  Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
2006  Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
2007  Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
2007  Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
2009  Capitalism Hits the Fan
2010  Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
2010  Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
2010  The Codes of Gender
2010  The Mean World Syndrome
2010  This Land Is Our Land
2012  Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
2013  Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
2016  The Occupation of the American Mind
2017  Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
2018  Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
2018  Digital Disconnect
2020  The Man Card
2021  Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
2022  Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2024  Atrocity Inc.
????  The Bystander Moment

Producer:
1997  Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
1997  Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
1997  bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
1998  Advertising and the End of the World
1998  Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
1998  On 'Orientalism'
1999  Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
2000  Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
2000  Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
2000  Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
2002  Playing Unfair
2003  No Logo
2003  Rich Media, Poor Democracy
2003  Wrestling with Manhood
2004  Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
2004  Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
2006  Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
2007  Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
2007  Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
2009  Capitalism Hits the Fan
2010  Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
2010  Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
2010  The Codes of Gender
2010  The Mean World Syndrome
2010  This Land Is Our Land
2012  Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
2013  Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
2016  The Occupation of the American Mind
2017  Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
2018  Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
2018  Digital Disconnect
2020  The Man Card
2021  Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
2022  Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2024  Atrocity Inc.
????  The Bystander Moment

Writer:
1997  Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
1997  Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
1997  bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
1998  Advertising and the End of the World
1998  Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
1998  On 'Orientalism'
1999  Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
2000  Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
2000  Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
2000  Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
2002  Playing Unfair
2003  No Logo
2003  Rich Media, Poor Democracy
2003  Wrestling with Manhood
2004  Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
2004  Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
2006  Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
2007  Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
2007  Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
2009  Capitalism Hits the Fan
2010  Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
2010  Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
2010  The Codes of Gender
2010  The Mean World Syndrome
2010  This Land Is Our Land
2012  Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
2013  Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
2016  The Occupation of the American Mind
2017  Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
2018  Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
2018  Digital Disconnect
2020  The Man Card
2021  Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
2022  Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2024  Atrocity Inc.
????  The Bystander Moment

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