Directed credits
18
Established
Strong directing catalog.
Director
Sut Jhally
Directing
Career Snapshot
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0.4
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Directed movies: 18Directed series: 0All crew credits: 36
TMDB ID: 1184450
IMDb ID: nm1126293
Known for: Directing
Place of birth: Kenya
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1997 - 2024
Years active: 28
Wikidata: Q2369877
Frequent jobs
Director (18)Executive Producer (12)Writer (4)Producer (2)
Biography
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.
Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Sut Jhally.
10.0
Atrocity Inc.
Director
2024 Movie
Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
Director
2021 Movie
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror
Director
2017 Movie
Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination
Director
2014 Movie
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
Director
2012 Movie
6.7
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
Director
2010 Movie
Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
Director
2010 Movie
This Land Is Our Land
Director
2010 Movie
7.0
Capitalism Hits the Fan
Director
2009 Movie
5.8
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Director
2006 Movie
6.5
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
Director
2004 Movie
6.6
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
Director
2004 Movie
6.3
No Logo
Director
2003 Movie
6.0
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
Director
2000 Movie
Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media
Director
1998 Movie
Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”
Director
1998 Movie
8.0
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Director
1997 Movie
Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
Director
1997 Movie
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Sut Jhally.
Guyland
Producer
2015 Movie
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Executive Producer
2022 Movie
8.4
The Occupation of the American Mind
Executive Producer
2016 Movie
10.0
Atrocity Inc.
Director
2024 Movie
6.7
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women
Director
2010 Movie
5.2
Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs
Writer
2006 Movie
6.5
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
Director
2004 Movie
4.0
Playing Unfair
Executive Producer
2002 Movie
8.0
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Director
1997 Movie
6.0
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
Director
2000 Movie
Wrestling with Manhood
Writer
2003 Movie
6.3
No Logo
Director
2003 Movie
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Sut Jhally.
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Executive Producer
2022 Movie
The Man Card
Executive Producer
2020 Movie
The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots
Executive Producer
2018 Movie
Digital Disconnect
Executive Producer
2018 Movie
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Writer
2018 Movie
8.4
The Occupation of the American Mind
Executive Producer
2016 Movie
Guyland
Producer
2015 Movie
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
Executive Producer
2013 Movie
The Mean World Syndrome
Executive Producer
2010 Movie
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
Writer
2007 Movie
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
Executive Producer
2007 Movie
5.2
Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs
Writer
2006 Movie
Wrestling with Manhood
Writer
2003 Movie
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Executive Producer
2003 Movie
4.0
Playing Unfair
Executive Producer
2002 Movie
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
Executive Producer
2001 Movie
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Sut Jhally.
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
2018 Movie
8.4
The Occupation of the American Mind
as Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts
2016 Movie
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Obesity and the Creation of a Health Crisis
as self
2013 Movie
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
as Himself (Narrator)
2007 Movie
8.0
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
as Himself
1997 Movie