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Sut Jhally

Writer / Film Producer / Film Director | * 05/29/1955 (68) | Kenya (Kenya)
Sut Jhally (born 1955) is a professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose work focuses on cultural studies, advertising, media, and consumption. He is the producer of more than 40 documentaries on media literacy topics and the founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation. Established in 1992, the Media Education Foundation (MEF) is a non-profit that "produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources to inspire critical reflection on the social, political, and cultural impact of American mass media". Their aim is to inspire students to think critically and in new ways about the hyper-mediated world around them. Also the author of six books and numerous scholarly and popular articles, Jhally is a public speaker and teacher. He has won the "Distinguished Communist Award" at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where the student newspaper has also voted him "Best Professor". He has shown his films and lectured at many colleges and universities nationally and internationally. He was named one of New Woman magazine's "People of the Year" in 1992. Jhally taught both undergraduate and graduate level courses which focused on media, public relations and propaganda, as well as gender, sex and representation.... ()

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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries

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Movies with Sut Jhally as Actor(3)

as Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts2016 The Occupation of the American Mind
as himself2010 The Codes of Gender

Movies with Sut Jhally as Crew(31)

Production/Executive Producer2016 The Occupation of the American Mind
Directing/Director2010 The Codes of Gender
Editing/Editor2010 The Codes of Gender
Writing/Writer2010 The Codes of Gender
Directing/Director2009 Capitalism Hits the Fan
Production/Executive Producer2000 Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
Production/Producer1998 Advertising and the End of the World

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Born: Sunday, 05/29 1955 (May) in Kenya (Kenya) (current age: 68 years + 304 days)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Simon Fraser University, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Employer: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sut Jhally frequently works together with these people:
Jeremy Earp (10x, Crew)
Andrew Killoy (4x, Crew)
Loretta Alper (4x, Crew)
Nina Huntemann (3x, Crew)
Sanjay Talreja (3x, Crew)
Mary Patierno (3x, Crew)
Andrew Killoy (3x, Crew)
Jack Shaheen (3x, Cast)
Naomi Klein (2x, Actress)
Jean Kilbourne (2x, Actress)
Sut Jhally (2x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:302746, Added: 08/11/2018, Last updated: 03/25/2024