Mad Women

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

The art of the "pitch" and its role in society, as told by many of the pitch industry's greatest salesmen, including Arnold Morris, Sandy Mason,...

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

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

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.

The Smurfs were created in 1958 by the Belgian comic author Peyo (Pierre Culliford, 1928-1992) and they are one of Belgium's most recognized exports....

A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.

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

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

This documentary celebrates the work of illustrator Reynold Brown, whose colorful and compelling art graced over 300 movie posters during the 1950s...

Film commissioned by the Chicago-based publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony, Tan, and Jet to encourage advertisers to reach out to African American...