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Title: Culture on Ice: Figure Skating & Cultural Meaning by Ellyn Kestnbaum ISBN: 0-8195-6642-X Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Figure skating gets the respect it deserves
Comment: _Culture on Ice_ is the first skating book I have bought in more than two years. It is also the first skating book where I actually learned something in every chapter and started to think about skating in ways that hadn't occurred to me.
Even though it's an "academic" book, its contents and message appeal to skating fans universally. The first two chapters are heavy on theory and may present some difficulty for those unfamiliar with academic theories of meaning, but they're worth sloughing through. (I think you could even get away with skipping them if you really can't get through the language.) Chapter three onward should be relatively smooth sailing for any confirmed skating fan with the caveats that the language is academic and the sentences are long.
The research is meticulous, and the chapter notes are full of exciting hidden gems of amazing detail. The technical appendix and suggestions for further reading alone would be worth the cover price for anyone looking to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the sport.
_Culture on Ice_ is successful as a work of theory, a work of history, and an appreciation of all who contribute to figure skating. Kudos to Ellyn Kestnbaum for taking figure skating beyond coffee-table-book status and establishing a framework for future critical analysis of the sport.
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Title: The Second Mark : Courage, Corruption, and the Battle for Olympic Gold by Joy Goodwin ISBN: 074324527X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: All the Sundays Yet to Come: A Skater's Journey by Kathryn Bertine ISBN: 0316099015 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Frozen Assets: The New Order of Figure Skating by Mark A. Lund, Lois Elfman, Rebecca Patrick ISBN: 0972140204 Publisher: Ashton Intl Media Inc Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Champions on Ice: Twenty-Five Years of the World's Finest Figure Skaters by CHRISTINE BRENNAN ISBN: 0771016484 Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Figure Skating Now: Olympic and World Stars by Steve Milton, Gerard Chataigneau ISBN: 1552978338 Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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