Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire

by Sut Jhally (Editor), Howard Zinn (Foreword), Jeremy Earp (Editor)

Jhally and Earp (both of the Media Education Foundation) originally conducted the 25 interviews collected here for an eponymous documentary on the use of the fear caused by the September 11th attacks to launch longstanding neoconservative plans to solidify and extend American global hegemony through military force.

295 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2001

About the author

Sut Jhally is Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Founder and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation (MEF). He is one of the world's leading scholars looking at the role played by advertising and popular culture in the processes of social control and identity construction. The author of numerous books and articles on media(including The Codes of Advertising and Enlightened Racism) he is also an award-winning teacher (a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Massachusetts, where the student newspaper has also voted him "Best professor"). In addition, he has been awarded the Distinguished Outreach Award, and was selected to deliver a Distinguished Faculty Lecture in 2007.

He is best known as the producer and director of a number of films and videos (including Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video; Tough Guise: Media, Violence and the Crisis of Masculinity; and Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire) that deal with issues ranging from gender, sexuality and race to commercialism, violence and politics. Born in Kenya, raised in England, educated in graduate studies in Canada, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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