Dear all,

My book *Front Office Fantasies: The Rise of Managerial Sports Media* was
released through the University of Illinois Press earlier this month.

*Book Description:*
*Front Office Fantasies* argues American sports media has increasingly
centered around management – a phenomenon evidenced everywhere from sports
films that heroize front office executives to sports radio and television
programs that fixate on drafts and free agency to sports video games that
feature gameplay revolving around salary cap management. The book not only
details the industrial logics behind this managerial interest, like sports
media companies’ desire for inexpensive, year-round content, but also
explores how this managerial fixation represents a key manifestation of
broader cultural and societal shifts, like the increasing hold of
financialization and the ongoing refiguration of hegemonic masculinity.
More information can be found on the publisher's website:
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087745

*Table of Contents:*
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

*Endorsement:*
"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*

*Ordering Information:*
The University of Illinois Press is offering the book 50% off through
December 31 with the code HOLIDAY50. After that date, the book can be
ordered with a 30% discount using the code F23UIP. Those promo codes can be
used while ordering here:
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087745

All best,
Branden

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Branden Buehler, Ph.D. (he/him)
Assistant Professor, Visual and Sound Media
College of Human Development, Culture, and Media
Seton Hall University

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