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?
7.2 2007 HD
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one...
7.7 2003 HD
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant...
6 2018 HD
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...
6.5 2010 HD
Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial...
0 2018 HD
In this highly anticipated sequel to his groundbreaking, ADVERTISING AND THE END OF THE WORLD, media scholar Sut Jhally explores the devastating...
5 1993 HD
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...
6 2016 HD
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...
4 2005 HD
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...
8 2004 HD
A porn-loving, Charles Manson-befriending, Mississippi Republican runs to become the next sheriff.
0 1970 HD
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...
3 2023 HD
The story of pioneering women making iconic TV ads that changed the world: from Shake n' Vac and Levi's, to the Flake girl in the bath and the Lynx...
7 2009 HD
The personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of all time and the stories behind their campaigns.
10 1999 HD
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...
0 2000 HD
Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of studios and their owners, rather than...
6.5 2016 HD
From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when American astronaut Neil Armstrong...
7.2 1982 HD
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was...
7.2 2001 HD
A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.
6 1954 HD
Film commissioned by the Chicago-based publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony, Tan, and Jet to encourage advertisers to reach out to African American...
6.2 2011 HD
Programming the Nation? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late...
7.5 2010 HD
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...
