Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, Sut Jhally asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this market-based view of the world: Do our present arrangements deliver what they claim -- happiness and satisfaction? Can we think about our collective as well as our private interests? And, can we think long-term as well as short-term?
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual cu...
Advertising surrounds us. It is part of our lives, our memory and our culture: it is a pure reflecti...
Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who...
A battalion, preceded by three riders and a military marching band, parades in front of the crowd. A...
PBS Frontline takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar "persuasion industries" of advertisi...
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
Every year, thousands of commercials are made that never reach our TV screens, deemed too shocking t...
In this highly anticipated sequel to his groundbreaking, ADVERTISING AND THE END OF THE WORLD, media...
The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning...
Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jh...
Pitch People is a documentary film that focuses on the role the art of the "pitch" has played in soc...
From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when Ameri...
Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of...
Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen r...
A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.
No Measure of Health profiles Kyle Magee, an anti-advertising activist from Melbourne, Australia, wh...
Programming the Nation? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America...
A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible b...
The personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of all time and the st...