Films directed by Sut Jhally
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons 47 min
For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast...
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States 85 min
Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies...
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism 47 min
While there's been no shortage of commentary about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stagnation and chronic unemployment to unchecked...
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News 60 min
If you think U.S. news has a liberal bias, this assumption-shattering film from Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, and Justin Lewis will have you thinking again. Making the common-sense case...
The Crisis of the Cultural Environment: Media & Democracy in the 21st Century 25 min
Turning to issues of media policy, George Gerbner delivers a stinging indictment of the way the so-called "information superhighway" is being constructed. By examining the logic of...
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 80 min
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions...
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire 76 min
Hijacking Catastrophe places the Bush Administration's original justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neo-conservatives to dramatically...
Framing An Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal 50 min
The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist on Pennsylvania's death row in connection with the death of a police officer, had become by the late 1990s a global symbol of inequities in the...
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger 40 min
What distinguishing feature do the world's healthiest and happiest societies have in common? According to acclaimed author Richard Wilkinson, the answer is simple: they have far less...
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom 45 min
For marketers who wish to reach the lucrative youth market, the relatively uncluttered medium of the school environment represents the final frontier -- access to a captive audience of...
Capitalism Hits The Fan 57 min
With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in...
Advertising & The End of The World 47 min
Advertising & the End of the World features an illustrated presentation by Sut Jhally of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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