Sut Jhally
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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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Atrocity Inc. (2024)
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The Codes of Gender (2010)
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Capitalism Hits the Fan (2009)
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Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (1999)
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Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)
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Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
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Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media (1998)
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Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media (1997)
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Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations” (1998)
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Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier (1997)
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Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse (2018)
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Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image Of Women (2010)
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Asking For It: the Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent (2010)
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Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women (2000)
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Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video (2007)
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Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (2004)
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Wrestling with Manhood (2003)
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bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation (1997)
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This Land Is Our Land (2010)
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Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships (2012)
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Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life (2021)
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Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination (2014)
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On 'Orientalism' (1998)
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Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror (2017)
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No Logo (2003)
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Advertising and the End of the World (1998)
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