Branden Buehler , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Visual and Sound Media
College of Human Development Culture and Media
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Branden Buehler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Visual and Sound Media
College of Human Development Culture and Media
Branden Buehler is a media studies scholar who received his Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. He teaches a wide variety of courses within the Visual and Sound Media program, including "Introduction to Film History," "Introduction to Media Studies," and "Sports, Media, and Culture."
His research centers around sports media, with a particular focus on sports television and sports media industries. His book Front Office Fantasies: The Rise of Managerial Sports Media, which examines the ubiquity of sports media texts focused on administrative figures and bureaucratic duties, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press in December 2023. His research has also been published in the International Journal of Sport Communication, Television & New Media, and The Velvet Light Trap, among other academic journals and collections.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Southern California
- M.A., Georgetown University
- B.A., Cornell University
Scholarship
Books:
- Front Office Fantasies: The Rise of Managerial Sports Media. University of Illinois Press, 2023.
Journal Articles:
- “Injury Videos and the Affective Potentials of User-Generated Sports Highlights,” with Steve Marston. Sport in Society, online first.
- "Independent Sports Television in the Networked Era." Television & New Media 23, no. 4 (May 2022): 352-367.
- "Alternative Telecasts and the Ongoing Fracturing of Sports Television." Journal of Sports Media 15, no. 2 (Fall 2020): 117-135.
- "Sports Television and the Continuing Search for Alternative Programming." International Journal of Sport Communication 13, no. 3 (September 2020): 566-574.
- "White-Collar Play: Reassessing Managerial Sports Games." The Velvet Light Trap 81 (Spring 2018): 4-17.
- "Manufacturing 'Football Realism' in the Studio Era." Journal of Sport History 43, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 1-20.
Book Chapters:
- "The Documentary as 'Quality' Sports Television." In Sporting Realities: Critical Readings of the Sports Documentary, eds. Samantha N. Sheppard and Travis Vogan, 11-34. University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
- "Queer Acknowledgments," with Rox Samer. In Mapping Queer Space(s) of Praxis and Pedagogy, edited by Elizabeth A. McNeil, James E. Wermers, and Joshua O. Lunn, 21-38. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.