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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. [1] He is the producer of more than 40 documentaries on media literacy topics and the founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation.
The Codes of Gender is a 2010 documentary written and directed by Sut Jhally, a professor of communications at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [1] The film investigates how advertising goes beyond the selling of product, but also the selling of social ideas; particularly through gender representations.
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People is a documentary film directed by Sut Jhally and produced by Media Education Foundation in 2006. This film is an extension of the book of the same name by Jack Shaheen, which also analyzes how Hollywood corrupts or manipulates the image of Arabs. The documentary analyzes 1,000 films that have Arab ...
Jhally subsequently founded the Media Education Foundation as a platform for distributing other films regarding media awareness and its impact. Films include Dreamworlds (2007), War Made Easy (2007), Hijacking Catastrophe (2004), Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (2004), Theaters of War (2022), and the series of films on women in ...
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land is a 2004 American documentary film directed by Sut Jhally and Bathsheba Ratzkoff which—according to the film's official website—"provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli ...
Killing Us Softly is an American documentary series by Jean Kilbourne, produced and distributed by the Media Education Foundation.First released in 1979 and since revised and updated three times, most recently in 2010, it focuses on images of women in advertising; in particular on gender stereotypes, the effects of advertising on women's self-image, and the objectification of women's bodies.
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire is a 2004 documentary film narrated by Julian Bond and directed by Jeremy Earp and Sut Jhally.It examines the possibility that neoconservatives used the September 11 attacks to usher in a new doctrine of expanding American power through military force under the guise of a "war on terror" and that the doctrine, known as the ...
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold is a 2011 documentary film about product placement, marketing and advertising directed by Morgan Spurlock.The premise behind the production is that the documentary itself would be entirely paid for by sponsors, thus being a form of metacinema.