Professor Sut Jhally, PhD
Saturday, July 13
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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.
Professor Jhally, Author
The Spectacle of Accumulation: Essays in Media. Culture & Politics (2006) by Sut Jhally
Sut Jhally's influential work as an activist, writer, film producer, and educator has had a far-reaching impact on the course and concerns of media criticism. This volume offers an essential collection of his writings. Jhally's work exhibits an engaged and ongoing concern with social justice, cultural politics, and public pedagogy. The Spectacle of Accumulation captures the full range of Jhally's thought and covers a variety of issues including the role of advertising in contemporary life, the cultural politics of sport, race, and gender coding in the coverage of current events, and the power of media education to name just a few of the themes covered in this crucial, new work. In addition to his key writings, this book includes a foreword by Henry Giroux as well as three interviews offering a fresh perspective on Jhally's work.
Other books by Professor Jhally