Branden Buehler

Front Office Fantasies

The Rise of Managerial Sports Media

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Front office executives have become high-profile commentators, movie and video game protagonists, and role models for a generation raised in the data-driven, financialized world of contemporary sports. Branden Buehler examines the media transformation of these once obscure management figures into esteemed experts and sporting idols.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Sports Media
• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780252087745
• ISBN-10: 0252087747
• Artikelnr.: 67779009

Autorenporträt

Branden Buehler

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Sporting Fantasies
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “The Age of the General Manager”
1. The Managerial American Dream: The Administrative Fantasies of
Managerial Sports Films
2. “He’s looking like a depressed asset”: The Financial Logics of
Managerial Sports Talk
3. Datavisuality: The Quantified Aesthetic of Managerial Sports
Television
4. White-Collar Play: Managerial Sports Games and the Modeling of
Neoliberal Capitalism
Conclusion: The Banality of Managerial Sports Media
Notes
Bibliography
Index