Mad Women

Advertising surrounds us. It is part of our lives, our memory and our culture: it is a pure reflection of our society. However, those who think and...

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials...

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one...

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

In this highly anticipated sequel to his groundbreaking, ADVERTISING AND THE END OF THE WORLD, media scholar Sut Jhally explores the devastating...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant...

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who died in 2016 at the age of 54, leaving his mark...

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was...

Every year, thousands of commercials are made that never reach our TV screens, deemed too shocking to see. In order to make it onto the screen, they...

From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when American astronaut Neil Armstrong...

No Measure of Health profiles Kyle Magee, an anti-advertising activist from Melbourne, Australia, who for the past 10 years has been going out into...

The personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of all time and the stories behind their campaigns.

A porn-loving, Charles Manson-befriending, Mississippi Republican runs to become the next sheriff.

Pitch People is a documentary film that focuses on the role the art of the "pitch" has played in society. It was produced in 1999 and includes...

Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of studios and their owners, rather than...

A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising and product placement.

A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.

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

Programming the Nation? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late...

Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product...