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Author Alpert, Stephen M., 1950- author.

Title Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man : 15 Years at Studio Ghibli / Steve Alpert
Published Berkeley, California : Stone Bridge Press, [2020]

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Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Studio Ghibli -- 1. Salaryman -- Fools Rush In -- Tokuma-shacho -- Public Speaking -- 2. A Different Kind of Princess -- Princess Mononoke -- Temporarily Misplaced in Translation -- The Circus -- The Kiss -- Going Public -- 3. Culture Wars -- Minarai (Watch and Learn) -- Unrepentant Smokers -- 4. Road Warrior -- You Say Potato I Say Starchy Tuberous Plant from the Perennial Nightshade Solanum Tuberosum L Family -- California Dreamin' -- Tequila Sunrise -- 5. Young Men, Be Ambitious! -- Space Mountain -- Technical Problems
Reality Bites -- 6. On the Road Again -- LA Confidential -- Asses in Seats -- Goodfellas -- Reversible Destiny Pioneers -- You'll Never Work in This Town Again -- 7. Asia -- Doing Business in Korea, Taiwan, and China -- Korea -- Taiwan -- The People's Republic of China -- 8. Spirited Away -- Blow Not Thine Own Horn -- The Golden Bear -- The Twilight Zone -- The 75th Academy Awards -- Oscar -- 9. My Ass Is a Chicken -- The Rest of the World -- Big Girls Don't Cry -- You Know You're in France When ... -- We'll Always Have Paris -- 10. Princess Diary -- Lost in Translation -- The Stars Align
For Love (Not Money) -- Mixmasters -- All's Well That Ends ... (Well?) -- 11. The Circle of Life -- To the Clouds -- Back to Earth -- 12. DirecTV -- Acknowledgments -- Back Cover
Summary "A highly entertaining memoir describing what it was like to work for Japan's premiere animation studio, Studio Ghibli, and its reigning genius Hayao Miyazaki. A behind-the-scenes look at what it's like for a gaijin (foreigner) to work in a thoroughly Japanese organization run by four of the most famous and culturally influential people in modern Japan."-- Provided by publisher
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 14, 2020)
Subject Alpert, Stephen M., 1950-
880-02 Miyazaki, Hayao, 1941-
SUBJECT 880-02/$1 宮崎駿, 1941-
Miyazaki, Hayao, 1941- fast
Subject 880-01 Sutajio Jiburi, Kabushiki Kaisha.
SUBJECT 880-01/$1 スタジオジブリ株式会社
Sutajio Jiburi, Kabushiki Kaisha fast
Subject Executives -- Japan -- Biography
Americans -- Japan -- Biography
Animated films -- Japan.
Americans
Animated films
Executives
Japan
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Biographies
Autobiographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781611729412
1611729416