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As founding director of the graduate screenwriting program at the University of Southern California, David Howard has taught the authors of some of the most successful movies of our time. Now, in HOW TO BUILD A GREAT SCREENPLAY, he synthesizes years of teaching into a thorough and profound curriculum in storytelling - a way to structure any kind of screenplay for maximum dramatic effect. Chapters include: - Where the Antagonist? - Main Character or Ensemble Story? - Six Types of Characters - Screen Time and Drama - How to Wave in Subplots The book concludes with analysis of seven very different bu successful movies, including Octobers Sky, American Beauty, The Sixth Sense and Pulp Fiction.
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David Howard is the founding director of the graduate screenwriting program at USC, where he teaches various courses in screenwriting. His students have scripted such successful films as The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Air Force One, Permanent Midnight, and Natural Born Killers. The coauthor (with Edward Mabley) of The Tools of Screenwriting, he lives in Los Angeles, California.
David Howard is the founding director of the graduate screenwriting program at USC, where he teaches various courses in screenwriting.
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