Sut Jhally Filmes

For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have repeatedly criticized the left for playing “the race card” and “the woman...

Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial...

With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic...

Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a...

Robert McChesney lays the blame for the US's current state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from...

Social and developmental psychologist and author Lynn Phillips explores the line between consent and coercion in this thought-provoking look at...

For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these...

Sports media scholars look at the persistence of heterosexism and homophobia in perpetuating gender stereotypes. They argue for new media images...

Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the accuracy or inaccuracy of specific representations,...

For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests...

Dreamworlds 3 examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and encourages viewers to consider how these narratives...

This video shows how the foreign policy interests of American political elites-working in combination with Israeli public relations...

Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, Sut Jhally asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this...

This documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to...

Stuart Hall offers an accessible and clarifying analysis of the social construction of race and racial difference. He explores how variations in...

Jean Kilbourne's pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning Killing us Softly...

Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics, and our culture, even though a growing body of research suggests it may be well past its...

Video and computer games represent a $6 billion a year industry. One out of every ten households in American owns a Sony Playstation. Children who...

Tough Guise systematically examines the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at...

The documentary focuses on images of women in advertising, in particular on gender stereotypes, the effects of advertising on women's self-image and...