Sut Jhally

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Sut Jhally (b. 1955) is a professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is also the founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation, a non-profit established in 1992 which "produces and distributes video documentaries to encourage critical thinking and debate about the relationship between media ownership, commercial media content, and the democratic demand for free flows of information, diverse representations of ideas and people, and informed citizen participation^[1].

Sut Jhally was born in Kenya, and raised in England. Jhally moved to Canada in 1978 after accepting a scholarship to the University of Victoria. He continued his studies at Simon Fraser University, where he received his PhD^[2].

He is the producer of several documentaries on media literacy topics^[3]. He is regarded as one of the world’s leading cultural studies scholar in the area of advertising, media, and consumption ^[4].

[edit] Video and Published Works

Dreamworlds II: Desire, Sex, Power in Music Video (1997)
Advertising and the End of the World (1998)
Killing Us Softly 3 (1999)
The Codes of Advertising, (1999), ISBN 04-1590-353-X
No Logo (2003) (V)
Social Communication in Advertising (w/William Leiss, Stephen Kline, and Jacqueline Botterill), (2004), ISBN: 04-159-667-60
Enlightened Racism
Reel Bad Arabs
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (2004)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
Tough Guise: Men, Violence and the Crisis in Masculinity
Beyond Beats & Rhymes: Hip Hop & Manhood
Pack of Lies
The Killing Screens
The Date Rape Backlash
Slim Hopes
Off the Straight and Narrow
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse