Front Office Fantasies

The Rise of Managerial Sports Media

AvBranden Buehler

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Engelska, 2023

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The new sports frontier that turns fans into would-be execs—and transforms the suits into superstars

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.

Moving from Moneyball and Football Manager to coverage of analytics gurus like Daryl Morey, Buehler shows how a fixation on managerial moves has taken hold across the entire sports media landscape. Buehler’s chapter-by-chapter look at specific media forms illustrates different facets of the managerial craze while analyzing the related effects on what fans see, hear, and play. Throughout, Buehler explores the unsettling implications of exalting the management class and its logics, in the process arguing that sports media’s managerial lionization serves as one of the clearest reflections of major material and ideological changes taking place across culture and society.

Insightful and timely, Front Office Fantasies reveals how sports media moved the action from the field to the executive suite.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-12-05
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252055287
Förlag:University of Illinois Press

Utforska kategorier

Film inom Kultur
Samhälle och kultur inom Samhälle och politik
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Branden Buehler is assistant professor of visual and sound media at Seton Hall University.

Recensioner i media

"Buehler's book is well written and extremely thorough in its overall review of managerial sports media, but more important, it may surprise readers by providing a much deeper dive into overall conversations about what it means to be human in the 21st century." --International Journal of Sport Communication"In this sharply written and impressive book, Branden Buehler provides compelling new insights into the social, cultural, and visual consequences of sports media's preoccupation with managerialism, financialization, and quantification. A vital and necessary work, this sophisticated account of managerial sports media is a must-read for all sports, film, and media scholars."--Samantha N. Sheppard, author of Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen

Innehållsförteckning

Preface: Sporting FantasiesAcknowledgments Introduction: "The Age of the General Manager" The Managerial American Dream: The Administrative Fantasies of Managerial Sports Films "He's looking like a depressed asset": The Financial Logics of Managerial Sports Talk Datavisuality: The Quantified Aesthetic of Managerial Sports Television White-Collar Play: Managerial Sports Games and the Modeling of Neoliberal Capitalism Conclusion: The Banality of Managerial Sports MediaNotes Bibliography Index