Sut Jhally
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Place of Birth: Kenya
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 Codes of Gender
Director
This Land Is Our Land
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The Codes of Gender
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The Codes of Gender
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The Codes of Gender
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Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
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Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
Executive Producer
The Mean World Syndrome
Director
Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
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2007
Actor Himself (Narrator)
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
Executive Producer
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
Writer
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
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Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
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Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
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Actor Himself
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Director
Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
Producer
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
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bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
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Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
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Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
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Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
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Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
