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 micbell2000 rated 18 months ago - Sut Jhally is well known on college campuses, to both students and faculty, through his controversial and award-winning film Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video (over which MTV threatened to sue him). Millions of students in the last decade have seen the film that The Los Angeles Times call...
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- pageswimmer rated 15 months ago
- I discovered Sut Jhally my second year of college when we had to watch a snippet of a low-budget documentary that he made, "Advertising and the End of the World." I walked up to the professor after the lecture and asked who this guy was. He seemed surprised but delighted to write his name out for me. After watching the full (unsettling) documentary I understood why my professor became intrigued at my request. He had described in his documentary much of what I had been mulling over in my mind regarding the advertising industry and its relationships with consumers. Excellent criticisms for young minds to be aware of regarding the world they are a part of. I decided to explore further and I looked him up on the internet. Fortunately I found this site. It has numerous links to his works which provide accessible, deeply thorough, and detailed criticisms of the government/big business/mainstream media apparatus.
- micbell2000 rated 18 months ago
- Sut Jhally is well known on college campuses, to both students and faculty, through his controversial and award-winning film Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video (over which MTV threatened to sue him). Millions of students in the last decade have seen the film that The Los Angeles Times called "a scathing examination of pop video's use and abuse of women."
As the founder and executive director of The Media Education Foundation he is also the producer of another 40 films (including; Tough Guise - Violence, the Media and the Crisis in Masculinity (with Jackson Katz); and Killing Us Softly 3 - Advertising's Image of Women (with Jean Kilbourne)) dealing with issues from commercialism and popular culture to violence and gender.
The author of 6 books and numerous scholarly and popular articles, Sut Jhally is one of the world's leading experts on advertising and media studies. He is also a renowned public speaker and teacher. He has won the coveted "Distinguished Teacher 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.
Dealing with issues vital to campus life - the media's relationship to gender, violence, sexual assault, date rape, racism and commercialism - Sut Jhally is equally at home before crowds from 1000 to 10, as he enlightens and empowers audiences to take actions towards creating a more just and compassionate world.
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