Die Simpsons - gelb; witzig und so viel mehr als Zeichentrick. Seit uuml;ber 20 Jahren erleben nicht nur die Familienmitglieder der Simpsons-Sippe ihre Abenteuer in der Serienstadt Springfield. Homer bemerkt plouml;tzlich; dass sich Bildung im Leben auszahlt. Bart lernt den viel besseren Lebensstandard der Reichen zu schauml;tzen. Der alte Gil ist die personifizierte Unterschicht; Kernkraftwerkbesitzer Montgomery Burns genau das Gegenteil. Lisa ist Buddhistin; der Fernsehclown Krusty juuml;dischen Glaubens. Was steckt also hinter der bunten Fassade Springfields? Spiegelt das komplexe gesellschaftliche Treiben in Springfield das Leben der amerikanischen Bevouml;lkerung wider? Carina Schierz deckt demografische; ethnische und religiouml;se Prozesse in fast jeder Szene der Zeichentrickserie auf und gewinnt so auf anschauliche Art und Weise Erkenntnisse uuml;ber das heutige Amerika.
#1168786 in eBooks 2013-07-30 2013-07-30File Name: B00DXJFRKI
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59 of 60 people found the following review helpful. Unexpectedly; a page-turner!By JB NoletI thought I knew this story; as they say; I saw the movie... But I didnt know the half of it. Reading on; I found myself staying up later and later; dying to know what Coco would do next. I was particularly struck by Garelicks meticulous research -- her apt contextualizing of historical events and convincing use of new information about Gabrielle Chanels friends; to show how they affected the haute-couture designers constantly-evolving; increasingly mercurial persona. The last third of the book makes for disturbing reading. We watch Chanel as her dynamic charisma becomes manic grandiosity and she slips into sadistic madness without; apparently; losing her innate creative genius. She may not have been lovable (though many loved her) but Coco Chanel is an utterly unforgettable character -- the perfect heroine for a vampire movie. Without revealing any of the books dramatic surprises; let me particularly recommend the passage where she spends several hours alone with the corpse of her ambivalently-loved friend Misia Natanson-Edwards-Sert. One thought -- I read the book on my paper-white Kindle; which cannot do justice to its many illustrations. The images are important to understanding the character; who in her own way was a visual artist. If you can; buy the physical book.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Not what I was looking forBy GlendaThe writer wrote this book as more of an expose than an autobiography. She also spent as much space (more if you add them together) on her lovers as she wrote about Chanel. Sometimes I wondered whos life I was reading about. The book ended at around 64% and started epilogue; biography etc.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. street smart; and whatever was propitious at the momentBy GWTW46If one hasnt read every other book written on Chanel; this is the one. Forget the rest. This one really explains her with the inclusion of her activities during WWII. She was a woman who lived by her wits; street smart; and whatever was propitious at the moment. Other books have covered the influence of the men in her life on her designs; but this give an in depth view of why she was worldly sophisticated and so naive about the people she emulated.