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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.
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TESTIMONIALS for Sut Jhally's Lectures
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Dreamworlds: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video-------------------------------------------------------------------
Examining the stories contemporary music videos tell about femininity and masculinity, and how these narratives help to shape individual and cultural attitudes about sexuality, this lecture, based on Sut Jhally's classic Dreamworlds film series, inspires viewers to reflect critically on images that they might otherwise take for granted. |
Virgin & Slut: The Catch-22 of Female Sexuality----------------------------------------------------------------
This lecture examines the effects on female identity of being caught within an impossible definition of sexuality for women - to be both innocent and experienced, both virgin and slut simultaneously. This Catch-22 situation creates an environment of anxiety and confusion for girls and women. |
Tough Guise: Media, Violence & masculinity----------------------------------------------------------
This lecture looks at the way in which "normal" definitions of masculinity position violence, intimidation and threat as key components of modern manhood. Also examined are ways to live outside of these constraining stories, so that boys have a chance of becoming "better men." |
Advertising & the End of the World------------------------------------------------
This lecture examines how advertising is driving the coming environmental crisis by pushing us constantly towards consumer goods to satisfy our needs for love, friendship and autonomy (and how it engenders dissatisfaction as a result). What will it take for us to leave a world fit for human habitation for future generations. |
Media & the New Racism----------------------------------
This lecture analyzes how the images of popular culture confuse Americans thinking about race and class, leaving us helpless to deal with the controversies that are tearing the nation apart and leaving the inner city in a state of desperation, violence and neglect. |
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11 & the Uses of Fear----------------------------------------------------------------
This lecture examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home.
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